ZION'S  HOLY  WAR 


AGAINST  THE*.*.*.* 
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By  REV.  JOHN  ALEX.   DOWIE 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR 


AGAINST  THE 


Hosts  of  Hell  in  Chicago 


A    SERIES    OF    ADDRESSES 

BY    THE 

REV.    JOHN    ALEXANDER    DOWIE, 

'  ( 
General  Overseer  of  the  Christian  Catholic  Church  in  Zion. 


DELIVERED    IN 

CENTRAL,  SOUTH  SIDE,  WEST   SIDE   AND    NORTH 
SIDE  ZION  TABERNACLES, 

CHICAGO,    ILLINOIS, 
U.  S.  A., 

During  the  Months  of  October,  November  and  December,  1899. 


CHICAGO: 
ZION  PUBLISHING   HOUSE 

1207  MICHIGAN   AVENUE. 
1900. 


M23612 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS. 


Prelude— A  Three  Months'  Holy  War  Against  the  Hosts  of  Hell 

in  Chicago, 1-12 

Sermon — A  Swift  Witness, 12-  23 

Opening  of  West  Side  Zion  Tabernacle  by  che  General  Overseer,  25-  26 

Sermon— God's  Message  of  War  and  Peace, 26-  39 

Sermon — Talmage  Junior  Lies, 40-  56 

Opening  of  North  Side  Zion  Tabernacle, 57-  58 

Prelude— Sin  is  Lawlessness, 58-  59 

Sermon — The  Everlasting  Gospel, 59-  67 

Prelude — Methodism  and  Its  Hatred  of  Zion 69-  80 

Sermon— Reap,  for  the  Harvest  of  the  Earth  is  Overripe,     .     .     .  80-  84 

Prelude— Some  Incidents  of  the  Holy  War, 85-  96 

Sermon— Zion's  Witness  Against  the  Adulterers, 96-106 

Prelude — Welcome  to  West  Side  Zion  Tabernacle 107 

Sermon — The  Everlasting  Gospel, 107-116 

Opening  of  South   Side  Zion  Tabernacle,  Lord's  Day  Morning, 

October  29,  1899 117 

Prelude — Welcome  to  South  Side  Zion  Tabernacle, 118-121 

Sermon— The  Beauty,  Glory  and  Power  of  Jesus  Christ,    ....  121-128 

Sermon— The  Beautiful  Gate  of  Divine  Healing, 129-142 

Prelude — Welcome  to  Central  Zion  Tabernacle, 143-148 

Sermon — Christ  Crucified,  Glorified.  Sanctified, 148-155 

Prelude— Remarks  Upon  Zion's  Holy  War 157-161 

Sermon— Zion's  Witness  Against  the  Adulterers, 161-173 

Prelude — Thanksgiving  for  God's  Continued  Blessing 175-178 

Sermon— Zion's  Witness  Against  the  False  Swearers, 178-197 

Sermon— A  True  Baptism  a  Seal  of  a  True  Church 199-212 

Sermon— Zion's 'Witness  Against  the  Oppressors, 213-227 

Prelude — Concerning  Illness  of  D wight  L.  Moody, 229-232 

Sermon — Zion's  Witness  Against  Those  That  Oppress  the  Widow 
and  the  Fatherless  and  That  Turn  Aside  the  Stranger  From 

His  Right, 232-241 

War— vi 


TABLE    OF   CONTENTS. 

PAGE 

Sermon— Continuation  of    Zion's  Witness    Against   Those   That 
Oppress  the  Widow  and  the  Fatherless  and  That  Turn  Aside 

the  Stranger  From  His  Right, 243-542 

Sermon — Zion's  Witness  Against  Those  Who  Leave  God  Out, .    .  255-263 

Sermon — Zion's  Cry  in  the  Midnight  Hour 265-274 

Prelude — Zion's  Witness  Against  an  Unclean,  Ungodly  and  Crim- 
inal Press, 275-276 

Sermon — Zion's  Witness  Against  the  Modern  Scribes  of  the  Daily 

Press, 276-278 

Sermon — Who  Controls  the  Newspapers— God  or  the  Devil?    .    .  278-286 

Sermon— Christ  Against  the  Vipers  of  the  Press, 286-290 

Sermon — The  Hypocrisy  of  Many  "  Religious"  Newspapers,     .     .  290-297 

Sermon — The  Associated  Thieves  of  the  Daily  Press 297-302 

Sermon — The  Shameful  Prostitution  of  the  Daily  Press,   ....  302-308 
Sermon — The  Need  of  Press  Censorship  and  of  an  Honest  News- 
paper,       308-312 

Prelude — The  Messenger  of  the  Covenant, 312-321 

Sermon — Bad  Books  and  Bad  Pictures  the  Enemies  of  the  Home, 

Church  and  State, 321-330 

ILLUSTRATIONS— 

Portrait  of  Rev.  John  Alex.  Dowie, Frontispiece 

Zion  Reaping  the  Waiting  Harvest, viii 

Feeding  the  Flocks 24 

Zion  Confronts  the  Modern  Pharaoh 68 

Zion's  Buzz-saw  and  the  Ridiculous  Mice, 86 

Methodism    and    the    Dowie    Teachings    Have    Nothing    in 

Common, ' 108 

Zion's  Vision  of  the  Blessed  Hope  and  the  Glorious  Appear- 
ing of  the  Great  God  and  Our  Saviour  Jesus  Christ,      .    .  116 

Zion's  Witness  Against  the  Adulterers, 130 

Zion's  Witness  Against  Oppressors, 156 

Zion's  Witness  Against  the   Oppressor  of  the  Widow  and 

Fatherless,  . ...  174 

Zion's  Witness  Against  False  Swearers, 228 

Zion's  Witness  Against  Those  Who  Leave  God  Out.       ...  256 
God's  Witness  Against  an  Unclean,  Ungodly  and  Criminal 

Press 314 

War— vii 


ZION'S    HOLY   WAR. 


PRELUDE  — A  THREE    MONTHS'    HOLY   WAR   AGAINST   THE 

HOSTS  OF  HELL   IN  CHICAGO.    SERMON— 

A  SWIFT  WITNESS. 


IORD'S  DAY,  October  I,  1899,  marked  the  beginning  of  a 
_^  special  Onward  Movement  in  Zion  which  will,  by  the 
Grace  of  God,  be  one  of  the  most  important  religious  events 
which  ever  occurred  in  Chicago.  On  this  day  the  General  Over- 
seer made  the  opening  declarations  in  the  Three  Months'  Holy 
War  Against  the  Hosts  of  Hell  in  Chicago. 

From  the  platform  to  the  rear  of  the  immense  ground  floor, 
and  from  that  floor  to  the  highest  seat  in  the  topmost  gallery, 
Zion  Tabernacle's  magnificent  interior  displayed  the  serried 
ranks  of  an  audience  of  over  three  thousand  persons.  As  the 
man  of  God,  with  simple,  direct,  but  powerful  eloquence,  set 
forth  the  great  principles  for  which  Zion  was  to  fight  in  this 
War,  now  opening,  the  listening  thousands  were  inspired  by 
the  mighty  words  of  faith  and  courage.  The  fearless  denunci- 
ations of  sin  were  sent  home  to  many  a  heart  which  cried  to 
God  in  penitence  and,  confessing  its  wrong,  vowed  a  greater 
faithfulness  and  more  implicit  obedience,  especially  in  the 
matter  of  dealing  honestly  with  God,  and  of  ceasing  to  "rob 
God"  by  withholding  the  "tithes  and  offerings,"  which,  under 
every  Dispensation,  were  His  due. 

Then  the  hallowed  hour  came  when,  nearly  one  hundred 
new  members  having  been  received,  and  two  Overseers,  three 
Elders,  and  a  Deacon  having  been  ordained,  over  two  thousand 
of  God's  children  gathered  around  the  Lord's  Table  and  in  the 
sweet  calm  of  the  autumn  evening  supped  with  their  Lord. 

Central  Zion  Tabernacle,   Lord's  Day  Afternoon,  October  i,  1899. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing  Hymn  No.  116: 
There's  a  royal  banner  given  for  display 

To  the  soldiers  of  the  King ; 
As  an  ensign  fair  we  lift  it  up  today, 
While  as  ransomed  ones  we  sing. 
CHORUS — Marching  on !     Marching  on! 

For  Christ  count  everything  but  loss; 
And  to  crown  Him  King,  we'll  toil  and  sing, 
Neath  the  banner  of  the  cross. 


2  ZIOX'S    HOLY    WAR. 

Dv,  Dowie  ihon  read  from  the  third  and  fourth  chapters  of 
the  Book  of  Malachi: 

Behold,  I  send  My  Messenger,  and  he  shall  prepare  the  way  before 
Me:  and  the  Lord,  whom  ye  seek,  shall  suddenly  come  to  His  temple;  and 
the  Messenger  of  the  Covenant,  whom  ye  delight  in,  behold,  he  cometh, 
saith  Jehovah  of  hosts.  But  who  may  abide  the  day  of  his  coming?  and  who 
shall  stand  when  he  appeareth?  for  he  is  like  a  refiner's  fire,  and  like 
fuller's  soap:  and  he  shall  sit  as  a  refiner  and  purifier  of  silver;  and  he 
shall  purify  the  sons  of  Levi,  and  purge  them  as  gold  and  silver,  and  they 
shall  offer  unto  the  Lord  offerings  in  righteousness.  Then  shall  the  offering 
of  Judah  and  Jerusalem  be  pleasant  unto  the  Lord,  as  in  the  days  of  old, 
and  as  in  ancient  years.  And  I  will  come  near  to  you  to  judgment;  and  I 
will  be  a  Swift  Witness  against  the  sorcerers,  and  against  the  adulterers,  and 
against  the  false  swearers ;  and  against  those  that  oppress  the  hireling  in 
his  wages,  the  widow,  and  the  fatherless,  and  that  turn  aside  the  stranger 
from  his  right,  and  fear  not  Me,  saith  Jehovah  of  hosts.  For  I  the  Lord 
change  not ;  therefore  ye,  O  sons  of  Jacob,  are  not  consumed. 

From  the  days  of  your  fathers  ye  have  turned  aside  from  Mine  ordi- 
nances, and  have  not  kept  them.  Return  unto  Me,  and  I  will  return  unto 
you,  saith  Jehovah  of  hosts.  But  ye  say,  Wherein  shall  we  return?  Will  a 
man  rob  God?  yet  ye  rob  Me.  But  ye  say,  Wherein  have  we  robbed  Thee? 
In  tithes  and  offerings.  Ye  are  cursed  with  a  curse ;  for  ye  rob  Me,  even 
this  whole  nation.  Bring  ye  the  whole  tithe  into  the  Storehouse,  that  there 
may  be  meat  in  Mine  house,  and  prove  Me  now  herewith,  saith  Jehovah 
of  hosts,  if  I  will  not  open  you  the  windows  of  heaven,  and  pour  you  out 
a  blessing,  that  there  shall  not  be  room  enough  to  receive  it.  And  I  will 
rebuke  the  devourer  for  your  sakes,  and  he  shall  not  destroy  the  fruits  of 
your  ground;  neither  shall  your  vine  cast  her  fruit  before  the  time  in  the 
field,  saith  Jehovah  of  hosts.  And  all  nations  shall  call  you  happy:  for  ye 
shall  be  a  delightsome  land,  saith  Jehovah  of  hosts. 

There  is  not  a  land  beneath  the  sun,  with  but  few  exceptions, 
where  we  have  not  a  representative. 

TWO    COME   TO    ZION    FROM    FARAWAY   JAPAN. 

I  am  glad  to  tell  you  that  two  Japanese  have  just  arrived 
from  Japan  within  the  last  hour  or  two.  They  have  come  to 
Zion  College;  one  of  them  the  brother  of  Evangelist  Inouye, 
and  the  other  his  son.  Others  are  coming. 

Evangelist  Inouye's  son  is  only  a  little  boy,  but  his  mother 
has  sent  him  all  the  way  from  Japan  for  the  purpose  of  entering 
Zion  College  and  being  thoroughly  trained  from  the  very 
beginning.  It  is  a  good  thing  to  catch  them  young. 

I  want  the  nations  to  call  Zion  blessed,  and  may  God  grant 
it.  I  want  to  have  the  great  joy  of  seeing  Zion  blessed  to  the 
perishing  and  the  poor  and  those  who  are  far  from  God. 

That  is  a  great  promise  connected  with  the  fulfilment  of 
our  duty  in  dealing  honestly  with  God. 

Your  words  have  been  stout  against  Me,  saith  the  Lord.  Yet  ye  say, 
Wherein  have  we  spoken  against  Thee?  Ye  have  said,  It  is  vain  to  serve 
God:  and  what  profit  is  it  that  we  have  kept  His  charge,  and  that  we  have 
walked  mournfully  before  Jehovah  of  hosts? 

There  are  a  great  many  Christians  who  walk  mournfully, 
and  they  are  an  awful  nuisance. 


ZION'S   HOLY    WAR.  3 

You  would  think  that  they  imagine  that  it  was  written  some- 
where in  Scripture,  "Thou  shalt  not  laugh."  They  obey  that 
commandment  of  their  own  making. 

Oh  why  do  so  many  Christians  walk  mournfully?  Why  do 
they  not  walk  joyfully?  That  is  the  way  for  people  who  are 
going  to  a  good  place  in  a  happy  spirit,  a  people  who  walk  with 
God.  He  wants  them  to  be  happy. 

A  religion  which  makes  men  unhappy  surely  cannot  be  a 
true  religion.  What  is  the  use  of  it?  We  have  no  use  for  a 
religion  which  makes  you  unhappy.  God  is  the  source  of  all 
happiness,  and  the  word  blessed  simply  means  happy. 

And  now  we  call  the  proud  happy;  yea,  they  that  work  wickedness  are 
built  up;  yea,  they  tempt  God,  and  are  delivered. 

That  is  the  cry  of  the  poor  miserable  religionist  who  has 
ordinances,  but  has  no  power.  He  has  no  possession  of  the 
things  he  talks  about. 

Then  they  that  feared  the  Lord  spake  one  to  another :  and  the  Lord 
hearkened,  and  heard,  and  a  book  of  remembrance  was  written  before 
Him,  for  them  that  feared  the  Lord,  and  that  thought  upon  His  Name. 
And  they  shall  be  Mine,  saith  Jehovah  of  hosts,  in  the  Day  that  I  do  make, 
even  a  peculiar  treasure ;  and  I  will  spare  them  as  a  man  spareth  his  own 
son  that  serveth  him.  Then  shall  ye  return  and  discern  between  the  right- 
eous and  the  wicked,  between  him  that  serveth  God  and  him  that  serveth 
Him  not.  For  behold  the  Day  cometh,  it  burneth  as  a  furnace;  and  all  the 
proud,  and  all  that  work  wickedness,  shall  be  stubble:  and  the  Day  that 
cometh  shall  burn  them  up,  saith  Jehovah  of  hosts,  that  it  shall  leave  them 
neither  root  nor  branch.  But  unto  you  that  fear  My  Name  shall  the  Sun 
of  Righteousness  arise  with  healing  in  His  wings;  and  ye  shall  go  forth, 
and  gambol  as  calves  in  the  stall.  And  ye  shall  tread  down  the  wicked; 
for  they  shall  be  ashes  under  the  soles  of  your  feet  in  the  Day  that  I  do 
make,  saith  Jehovah  of  hosts. 

Remember  ye  the  law  of  Moses  My  servant,  which  I  commanded  unto 
him  in  Horeb  for  all  Israel,  even  statutes  and  judgments.  Behold,  I  will 
send  you  Elijah  the  prophet  before  the  great  and  terrible  Day  of  Jehovah 
come.  And  he  shall  turn  the  heart  of  the  fathers  to  the  children,  and  the 
heart  of  the  children  to  their  fathers;  lest  I  come  and  smite  the  earth  with 
a  curse. 

May  God  bless  His  Word. 

Dr.  Dowie  then  said : 

I  ask  you  to  pray  for  the  entire  Plan  of  the  Campaign  of  the 
Three  Months'  Holy  War,  that  God  may  greatly  bless  this 
great  city. 

We  are  looking  forward  to  a  time  of  wonderful  blessing, 
such  as  we  have  never  seen  before.  But  you  know  as  well  as  I 
do  that 

GOD   WILL   NOT    GIVE    BLESSING    TO   AN   UNFAITHFUL    PEOPLE. 

You  who  are  thieves  and  robbers  are  a  curse  to  this  Church. 
You  are  a  curse  to  the  earth  that  you  burden  with  your  presence. 
You  are  a  curse  to  the  Christ  whose  Name  you  bear.  To  be  a 
thief  of  another  man's  property  is  a  terrible  thing,  but  to  be  a 
thief  of  God's  property  is  an  infinitely  more  terrible  thing. 


4  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

God  has  given  you  life,  and  everything  else,  and  to  steal 
from  Him  His  own  portion,  and  to  use  it  for  yourselves,  for 
the  gratification  of  your  vanity,  or  for  the  satisfaction  of  your 
belly,  is  a  disgusting  and  shameful  thing.  You  who  rob  God 
in  tithes  and  offerings  are  thieves  and  robbers,  and  I  cannot  see 
how  you  can  imagine  that  you  are  Christians  at  all. 

I  consider  you  on  a  par  with  the  malefactor  in  the  county 
jail.  I  do  not  want  your  company  in  the  Church  of  God,  be- 
cause you  will  be  a  curse  to  us. 

God's  Word  has  said,  plainly: 

Ye  are  cursed  with  a  curse :  for  ye  rob  Me. 

We  do  not  want  people  who  are  cursed  with  God's  curse  to 
be  in  our  company  as  a  Church.  We  do  not  mind  your  coming 
into  Zion  Tabernacle,  as  sinners  seeking  salvation,  but  you  have 
no  right  to  call  yourselves  Christians. 

You  know  very  well  who  of  you  are  thieves  and  robbers, 
who  of  you  have  been  keeping  back  God's  tithes.  You  know 
it  in  your  own  hearts. 

I  beseech  of  you  that  you  confess  your  sin  to  your  God, 
and  vow  that  you  will  sin  no  more.  Make  the  vow  this  very 
day,  that  you  will  restore  to  God  as  much  as  you  can,  and  that 
you  will  in  the  future  see  that  God  gets  His  tithe,  even  if  you 
have  to  go  with  a  hungry  belly  and  a  naked  back. 

I  say  that  boldly  because 

THE  CHURCH  MUST  BE  BROUGHT  UP  TO  THE  STANDARD. 

I  am  not  going  to  bring  the  Standard  down  to  the  Church. 

"Bring  back  that  standard!"  cried  one  in  a  battle.  The 
standard-bearer  was  going  too  far  ahead.  The  standard-bearer 
turned  around  and  said,  "You  cowards,  come  up  to  the 
standard!" 

The  Standard  must  go  upward  and  forward.  If  you  do  not 
come  up  to  the  Standard  of  God's  Word,  quit  calling  yourselves 
Christians.  You  are  a  pack  of  thieves  and  robbers,  and  I  do 
not  want  to  have  anything  to  do  with  you  in  fellowship.  I 
would  rather  you  would  get  out,  because  you  bring  a  curse  upon 
us.  You  have  a  curse  upon  you,  and  you  will  curse  the  Church 
with  your  presence,  just  as  Achan  cursed  the  army  of  Israel. 
He  kept  back  that  which*  belonged  to  God,  and  you  know  the 
army  was  beaten,  shamefully  beaten.  Joshua  did  not  under- 
stand it,  and  fell  on  his  face  before  God,  saying: 

Alas,  O  Lord  God,  wherefore  hast  Thou  at  all  brought  this  people  over 
Jordan,  to  deliver  us  into  the  hand  of  the  Amorites,  to  cause  us  to  perish? 

The  answer  from  God  to  Joshua  was: 

Get  thee  up ;  wherefore  art  thou  thus  fallen  upon  thy  face?  Israel  hath 
sinned. 

Joshua  did  not  pray  any  more.  He  set  to  work  to  discovei 
who  was  the  sinner.  He  cast  the  lot,  believing  that  God  would 


Z ION'S  HOLY   WAR.  5 

guide  him,  and  all  the  tribes  were  set  apart  but  one.  It  was  in 
that  tribe.  Then  he  cast  the  lot  and  it  fell  upon  one  particular 
branch.  He  ran  that  down  and  it  fell  upon  one  man  Achan, 
and  Joshua  said  tc  him,  "What  hast  thou  done,  my  son?" 

You  know  the  story  who  know  the  Word  of  God.  Achan 
said,  "I  have  sinned.  I  have  taken  a  part  of  the  spoil  that 
belongs  to  God.  In  my  tent,  hidden  below  the  soil,  I  have  a 
Babylonish  garment.  I  have  a  wedge  of  gold,  and  other  things 
which  belong  to  God." 

"Bring  it  out,"  said  Joshua. 

It  was  God's  portion  he  had  stolen.  It  was  brought  out, 
and  Joshua  wept  over  this  culprit,  but  he  said,  "There  must  be 
execution.  Take  him;  take  his  wife;  take  his  children;  take 
his  family;  take  his  cattle;  take  his  sheep;  take  his  oxen ;  take 
this  Babylonish  garment  and  the  other  stolen  property.  Take 
it  all,  and  burn  it  with  fire.  Clean  this  thing  out  of  Israel." 

They  were  all  burned  with  fire,  and  stoned  with  stones,  and 
a  great  heap  of  stones  covers  their  ashes  in  the  Valley  of  Achor 
(Valley  of  Trouble)  unto  this  day.  I  feel  like  saying,  "Oh 
God,  if  it  is  necessary, 

BURN    A    DOZEN    FAMILIES,    BUT    SAVE    ZION. 

"Save  Zion,  and  help  us  to  win  the  victory  over  the  foes  of 
God  and  Israel.  If  there  are  any  cowards  or  Achans  in  this 
army,  Oh  God,  take  them  out."  (Amen.) 

I  will  do  my  part.  If  I  find  them  out,  they  will  surely  go. 
That  is  what  you  think  I  ought  to  do,  is  it  not? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Now  you  know,  each  of  you  in  your  own  heart, 
whether  or  not  you  are  an  Achan,  although  we  may  not  know 
it  any  more  than  Joshua  did.  You  are  a  thief  who  have  been 
keeping  back  God's  portion  and  burying  it  in  your  tent.  God 
knows,  and  we  shall  find  out  surely.  We  shall  find  out,  and 
the  day  we  find  out,  I  feel  like  praying,  "Oh  God,  burn  up  the 
whole  outfit." 

You  say  that  is  hard.  Well,  it  is  pretty  hard.  It  was  ;\ 
hard  thing  to  do,  and  Joshua  was  a  tender-hearted  man,  but  he- 
was  determined  to  have  the  Army  of  God  clean. 

Says  somebody,  "That  is  Old  Testament  talk.  It  is  not 
the  God  of  the  New  Testament  and  the  New  Testament  dis 
pensation." 

That  shows  how  little  you  know. 

Very  shortly  after  the  Holy  Ghost  came  at  Pentecost,  the 
people  began  to  come  to  the  apostles  and  lay  at  their  feet  thj 
price  of  their  land.  Among  them  there  was  a  fine  Christian 
man  named  Ananias,  who  said,  "Oh  blessed  apostles,  what  joy 
it  gives  to  my  heart  to  lay  at  your  feet  the  price  of  the  land 
that  I  have  sold.  Take  the  money.  Spread  the  Gospel 


6  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

throughout  the  world.  Blessed  apostles  of  the  risen  Christ, 
here  it  is,  the  price  of  my  land." 

No  doubt  he  made  some  such  speech  as  that.  Peter  was 
looking  at  him,  and  he  saw  that  he  was  a  hypocrite  and  liar  to 
the  heart's  core  notwithstanding  his  speech. 

He  said : 

Ananias,  why  hath  Satan  filled  thy  heart  to  lie  to  the  Holy  Ghost,  and 
to  keep  back  part  of  the  price  of  the  land?  .  .  .  How  is  it  that  thou 
hast  conceived  this  thing  in  thy  heart?  Thou  hast  not  lied  unto  men,  but 
unto  God. 

Ananias  was  found  out.  The  shame  and  horror  of  his  dis- 
covery went  back  upon  his  heart,  and  in  a  moment  that  heart 
burst  and  he  fell  down  there  and  died. 

The  young  men  took  his  body  out  and  buried  it. 

When  Ananias's  wife  came  in  Peter  said: 

Tell  me  whether  ye  sold  the  land  for  so  much.  And  she  said,  Yea,  for 
so  much. 

He  looked  at  her  and  said: 

How  is  it  that  ye  have  agreed  together  to  tempt  the  Spirit  of  the  Lord? 
She  did  not  know  that  her  husband  was  dead,  but  Peter  said : 
The  feet  of  them  which  have  buried  thy  husband  are  at  the  door,  and 
they  shall  carry  thee  out. 

She  fell  dead,  too.     And  they  carried  her  out. 

And  if  all  the  Ananias's  and  Sapphiras  in  the  churches  today 
were  to  fall  dead,  how  many  funerals  would  there  be"  tomorrow? 
Perhaps  there  might  be  some  in  the  Christian  Catholic  Church 
in  Zion. 

You  must  remember  that  the  death  of  these  two  was  a  New 
Testament  judgment,  and  occurred  right  at  the  beginning  of 
the  Apostolic  Church.  As  the  General  Overseer  of  the  Chris- 
tian Catholic  Church,  I  say, 

MAY     GOD     TAKE     EVERY     ANANIAS     AND     SAPPHIRA     OUT     OF     ZION, 

and  keep  them  out,  if  they  have  to  die  for  it. 

I  do  not  mind  whether  the  Lord  gives  me  a  small  army  or  a 
large  one,  but  it  must  be  thorough.  We  must  be  clean. 

God  will  not  give  you  any  blessing,  if  you  vow  to  God  that 
you  are  going  to  give  to  Him  a  tithe  as  you  have  in  Zion  and 
then  not  pay  it.  Whether  you  vowed  it  or  not,  you  ought  to 
have  paid  it  because  it  is  God's  law. 

One  said  the  other  day,  "Doctor,  that  is  just  the  question: 
is  it  God's  law?" 

There  the  quibbler  begins.  "Is  it  God's  law?  Hath  God 
said?"  And  that  is  the  way  the  fall  of  man  started.  The 
Devil  said,  "Hath  God  said?" 

A  man  said  the  other  day,  "  Dr.  Dowie  knows  perfectly 
well  that  Malachi  commanded  tithing  for  the  rebuilding  of  the 
Temple." 


ZlON'S   HOLY    WAR.  7 

That  is  the  most  ridiculous  thing  in  the  world.  There  is 
not  a  word  about  the  rebuilding  of  the  Temple  in  the  Book  of 
Malachi.  It  was  the  law  of  God  for  the  whole  nation,  and  for 
every  generation.  It  was  not  for  the  Jewish  dispensation  alone, 

I  am  going  to  ask  you  to  pray  a  particular  prayer  today 
when  I  am  on  my  knees.  If  you  do  not  pray  it,  I  do  not  want 
to  see  you  at  the  Lord's  Table.  I  am  going  to  "fence  the 
Table"  today  on  that  matter.  In  Scotland  they  used  to  "fence 
the  Table"  at  the  Lord's  Supper  with  words  of  warning  and 
with  naked  swords. 

The  chronological  tables  in  your  Bibles  show  you  that 
Abraham  lived  about  the  year  1911  B.  C.,  and  that  Moses  lived 
about  1490  B.  C.  In  round  numbers  there  were  more  than 
four  hundred  years  between  Abraham  and  Moses.  Four  hun- 
dred years  before  Moses  or  Aaron  were  born,  before  Israel 
received  the  law  of  God  at  Mount  Horeb,  this  happened. 

Abraham  found  a  wonderful  man  at  Salem;  afterwards 
called  Jeru-Salem,  Jerusalem,  the  City  of  the  Great  King.  His 
name  was  Melchizedek.  He  found  that  he  was  the  High 
Priest  of  God;  that  he  was  the  King  of  Salem,  the  King  of 
Righteousness,  the  King  of  Peace,  and  that  he  was  the  High 
Priest  of  God. 

Now  I  cannot  enter  into  the  discussion  as  to  who  he  was. 
I  do  not  know.  I  only  know  that  there  is  no  character  in  all 
the  Scriptures  more  mysterious,  in  some  respects,  than  Mel- 
chizedek. 

What  did  Abraham  give  to  Melchizedek?  There  is  the 
plain  statement.  Not  only  in  the  Book  of  Genesis,  but  for 
several  chapters  it  is  argued  upon  in  the  Epistle  to  the 
Hebrews,  namely,  that 

ABRAHAM    PAID    HIS  TITHE  TO  MELCHIZEDEK,  GOD'S   HIQH    PRIEST 

AND     KING, 

upon  His  holy  hill  of  Zion  at  Jeru-Salem. 

I  desire  to  point  out  to  you  something  which  some  of  you 
have  never  noticed.  You  fancy  that  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  is  a 
High  Priest  after  the  order  of  Aaron.  He  is  no  such  thing. 

The  one  hundred  and  tenth  Psalm  says: 

Thou  art  a  Priest  forever 
After  the  order  of  Melchizedek. 

Aaron  paid  tithes  to  Melchisedec.  Aaron  was  in  the  loins 
of  Abraham.  Aaron  himself,  the  High  Priest  of  God  in  the 
Mosaic  dispensation,  it  is  argued  by  the  writer  to  the  Hebrews, 
paid  tithes  to  Melchizedek  by  his  father  Abraham. 

The  Lord  Jesus  Christ  became,  therefore,  a  High  Priest 
forever  after  the  order  of  Melchizedek, 

Is  He  still  that  High  Priest? 

Voices— "Yes." 


8  2 ION'S   HOLY   WAR. 

Dr.  Dowie — If  Abraham  paid  Him  tithes,  dare  we  refuse 
to  pay  Him  tithes? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Shall  we  pay  Him  less? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — If  you  do,  are  you  not  deliberately  sinning 
against  God,  and  are  you  not  thieves  and  robbers? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — What  right  has  any  robber  to  expect  that  God 
is  going  to  bless  him  or  the  Church  with  which  he  is  asso- 
ciated, if  he  steals  from  God? 

Now,  I  say  this  in  all  love.  I  say  it  because  many  are 
afflicted  with  leanness  of  spirit,  soul  and  body,  because  they 
do  not  give  to  God  what  they  honestly  owe  to  Him. 

"Do  you  do  it  yourself,  Doctor?" 

Why  should  I  answer  that  which  would  only  seem  to  be 
making  me  sound  my  own  trumpet?  I  do  not  want  to,  but 
that  question  has  been  asked. 

I     HAVE     GIVEN     TO     GOD'S    WORK    NINETY-SEVEN    AND    ONE-HALF 
PER    CENT    OF   MY    INCOME    FOR    ELEVEN    YEARS. 

Between  June  9,  1888,  and  June,  9,  1899,  I  received  more 
than  a  million  dollars,  the  absolute  disposal  of  which  was  in 
my  own  hands.  I  declare  before  the  ever-living  God  that  I 
gave  at  least  nine  hundred  and  seventy-five  thousand  dollars 
of  that  sum  to  God's  work.  I  did  not  keep  two  and  one-half 
per  cent  out  of  that  vast  sum  of  money. 

What  I  kept  I  used  for  the  necessary  expenses  of  my 
family,  according  to  my  light;  for  the  education  of  my  chil- 
dren, for  traveling  expenses,  and  in  my  home.  I  gave  the 
rest  to  God's  work  in  a  thousand  forms:  to  the  poor,  to  the 
printing,  to  the  establishment  of  missions,  to  the  sustaining  of 
the  Elders,  and  to  many  other  things. 

I  have  hitherto  mentioned  May  1st,  last,  as  the  end  of  that 
period,  yet  if  I  extend  it  to  June  9th,  making  it  exactly  eleven 
years,  I  will  still  be  within  the  truth. 

I  would  have  had  a  right  under  the  ancient  dispensation  to 
keep  the  Levitical  tithe:  for  God  said  to  Aaron: 

All  the  best  of  the  oil,  and  all  the  best  of  the  vintage,  and  of  the  corn, 
the  first  fruits  of  them  which  they  give  unto  the  Lord,  to  thee  have  I  given 
them.  .  .  .  And  unto  the  children  of  Levi,  behold,  I  have  given  all  the  tithe 
in  Israel  for  an  inheritance,  in  return  for  their  service  which  they 
serve. 

But  up  to  June  9th  I  never  took  so  large  a  portion. 

Since  June  9th  I  have  set  apart  for  the  fund  of  the  General 
Overseer  of  the  Christian  Catholic  Church  a  certain  proportion 
of  the  money  that  comes  into  my  hands.  I  asked  God  to  give 
me  a  token  as  to  whether  He  was  pleased  with  that.  He  must 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  Q 

have  been  pleased,  for  I  have  had  more  money  to  give  to  the 
Church  than  I  ever  had  before. 

WITH  THE  GENERAL'  OVERSEER'S  FUND  I  DO  MANY  THINGS. 

It  is  a  charity  fund  for  helping  weak  and  sorrowing  people. 
It  is  the  fund  out  of  which  I  pay  what  I  think  is  right  in  con- 
nection with  my  own  personal  and  family  expenses.  It  is  a 
fund  out  of  which  I  pay  a  great  many  little  things  that  are 
specially  connected  with  my  office;  a  fund  out  of  which  I  make 
certain  allowances  beyond  the  regular  allowances  of  Elders 
when  special  occasions  arise.  It  is  a  fund  out  of  which  I  some 
times  pay  money  to  help  other  funds.  I  paid  one  hundred  and 
forty  dollars  out  of  that  fund  last  night  to  help  to  send  thou- 
sands of  copies  of  LEAVES  OF  HEALING  to  India.  I  am  very 
thankful  that  God  permits  me  to  handle  that  fund,  and  it  has 
been  very  useful. 

You  will  all  say  I  have  a  right  to  set  aside  that  fund,  will 
you  not? 

Voices—"  Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Is  there  one  in  Zion  who  says  No?  I  would 
be  glad  to  hear  why. 

It  is  a  tremendous  responsibility,  but  my  hands  are  clean  of 
everything  that  is  improper  in  connection  with  the  manage- 
ment of  funds  at  any  time.  Does  it  matter  what  the  papers 
say? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — We  have  settled  that  again  and  again  in  Con- 
ferences, at  one  of  which  recently  there  were  two  thousand 
members  present.  Another  was  attended  by  more  than  a 
thousand,  and  there  was  a  special  Conference  at  which  there 
were  five  hundred,  all  in  one  week.  That  has  been  settled  in 
Zion. 

It  is  a  very  good  thing  I  had  that  General  Overseer's  fund 
in  connection  with  the  Three  Months'  Holy  War,  because  it 
enabled  me  to  do  a  number  of  things  quickly  that  I  could  not 
have  done  otherwise. 

We  are  at  the  opening  of  our  Three  Months'  Holy  War. 
We  have  always  been  at  war,  but  this  a  special  arrangement  of 
forces. 

At  this  time  I  intend  to  pray 

A    PRAYER    WHICH    GOD    WILL    ANSWER 

I  am  going  to  ask  God  Almighty,  on  my  knees,  to  take  every 
Achan  out  of  this  camp  and  burn  him  with  fire,  if  it  is  neces- 
sary. I  am  going  to  say  a  blunt  thing.  It  may  seem  a  hard 
thing.  I  would  not  be  at  all  sorry  if  the  house  of  every  Achan, 
every  Ananias  and  every  Sapphira  took  fire  tonight  and  burned 
up  all  their  goods  and  their  children.  I  think  that  breed  of 


10  ZION'S   HOLY   WAR. 

children,  if  they  lived,  would  be  a  bad  one,  and  I  know  that 
the  innocent  would  go  to  heaven. 

It  would  be  a  good  thing  for  the  world  if  a  great  many  chil- 
dren that  are  born  were  never  born.  There  are  bad  breeds. 
Their  mothers  and  fathers  eat  swine's  flesh  and  drink  liquor 
and  smoke  tobacco  and  live  like  devils,  and  they  give  their 
accursed  filthy  blood  and  their  dirty  passions  to  their  progeny. 
They  bring  them  up  just  like  devils.  It  would  be  better  if  they 
had  never  been  born. 

Still  worse  than  these  are  the  children  of  the  hypocrites, 
who  know  that  their  fathers  and  mothers  are  hypocrites  and 
liars.  Jesus  said,  "The  tares  are  the  children  of  the  Evil  One," 
and  He  has  decreed  that  they  shall  be  burned. 

I  do  not  hesitate  to  say  as  Joshua  said:  "Oh  God,  rid  us 
of  the  whole  breed."  I  do  not  want  them  in  Zion.  God  does 
not  want  them.  Keep  out  of  Zion,  if  you  are  going  to  trifle 
with  a  buzz-saw.  (Laughter.)  It  does  not  pay  to  trifle  with  a 
buzz-saw.  Zion  is  very  much  like  a  buzz-saw.  You  had  better 
keep  your  fingers  off,  else  you  will  have  no  fingers  to  fool  with. 

"Doctor,  what  kind  of  a  Church  is  this?" 

It  is  a  sharp  threshing  instrument  having  teeth;  the  Bible 
said  it  would  be. 

Behold,  I  will  make  thee  a  new  sharp  threshing  instrument  having 
teeth :  thou  shall  thresh  the  mountains,  and  beat  them  small,  and  shalt 
make  the  hills  as  chaff.  Thou  shalt  fan  them,  and  the  wind  shall  carry 
them  away,  and  the  whirlwind  shall  scatter  them:  and  thou  shalt  rejoice  in 
the  Lord,  thou  shalt  glory  in  the  Holy  One  of  Israel. 

There  are  some  people  who  do  not  like  sharp  threshing 
instruments  having  teeth.  They  like  molasses. 

MOLASSES  NEVER  REAPED  A  CROP  YET. 

You  cannot  reap  with  molasses. 

A  man  said  the  other  day:  "Dr.  Dowie  talks  so  sharply." 
That  is  the  only  way.  I  am  sharpening  up  my  threshing  instru- 
ment, sharpening  up  the  knives.  That  is  the  way  a  man  does 
before  he  goes  reaping.  I  want  to  gather  in  the  garner  of  the 
Lord  a  great  big  harvest,  and  I  cannot  do  it  with  molasses. 

When  Mr.  Moody  was  challenged  for  giving  money  to  the 
Church  of  Rome  at  Northfield,  Massachusetts,  he  said,  "Well, 
I  sometimes  give  Rome  molasses." 

Rome  will  take  all  the  molasses  you  like  to  give  her.  She 
will  purr  over  you  as  John  Ireland  does,  but  underneath  that 
velvet  paw  there  is  the  claw  of  the  "beast." 

That  "molasses"  helped  to  build  up  a  Church  where  the 
Virgin  Mary  is  worshiped,  where  the  Pope  is  held  infallible, 
and  where  a  piece  of  bread  is  worshiped  as  God.  Chicago  is 
through  with  molasses.  If  it  is  not,  it  ought  to  be. 

The  world  is  tired  of  molasses.  Even  the  enemies  of  Zion 
will  think  more  of  us  if  we  do  not  feed  them  with  molasses. 


ZION'S   HOLY    WAR.  II 

It  does  not  matter  what  the  world  thinks,  anyhow.  The 
only  thing  that  matters  is  what  God  thinks.  Any  one  who 
differs  with  me  in  the  matter  of  tithing  and  will  not  do  right, 
had  better  go  home  and  sup  with  the  Devil  to  whom  they  belong : 
for  Goda  says  they  "are  cursed  with  a  curse."  I  do  not  want 
you  to  stay  here  and  sup  with  God.  You  will  find  that 

THE  DEVIL  WILL  ENTER  INTO  YOU  WITH  THE  BREAD 

if  you  stay  here  and  make  a  mock  at  the  Lord's  Table.  Do 
you  know  when  Satan  entered  into  Judas  Iscariot?  It  was  when 
he  took  the  sop  from  the  Lord's  hand.  When  Judas  Iscariot 
took  the  sop,  he  acknowledged  thereby  his  guilt.  He  saw  that 
the  Lord  knew  all  about  the  way  that  he  had  been  bargaining 
to  sell  Him,  and  with  a  mock  and  a  sneer  he  swallowed  the 
sop.  Then  Satan  entered  into  him. 

If  you  sit  down  at  the  Lord's  Table  and  take  this  bread, 
when  you  are  a  pack  of  hypocrites,  the  Devil  may  enter  into 
you  and  take  possession  of  you,  and  you  may  die  the  death  of 
Judas  Iscariot.  I  do  not  want  anything  to  do  with  a  hypocrite 
or  a  liar  here  today.  They  are  dangerous  company. 

I  am  not  careful  whether  I  build  up  a  large  Church  or  not. 
I  am  careful  that  there  shall  be  a  pure  Church  built  up, 
whether  it  is  big  or  little.  Now  that  is  my  mind,  and  I  believe 
it  is  in  accordance  with  the  mind  of  God.  I  know  it  is. 

I  am  talking  to  my  own  people.  If  there  are  strangers 
here  who  came  in  for  something  else,  why  they  have  got  some- 
thing that  they  did  not  expect.  (Laughter  and  applause.) 

God's  people  in  Zion  must  obey  God  or  get  out. 

God  is  greatly  blessing  this  people  in  giving  their  tithes. 
I  was  very  much  surprised  a  few  days  ago,  to  get  from  two 
persons  tithes  amounting  to  over  three  hundred  dollars. 
Thanks  be  to  God  that  He  had  specially  blessed  them  and 
enabled  them  to  do  it. 

Zion  is  getting  the  blessing  from  God.  He  is  opening  the 
windows  of  heaven  and  pouring  us  out  a  great  blessing,  and 
when  every  Achan,  and  Ananias,  and  Sapphira  has  gone  out 
there  will  not  be  room  enough  to  receive  it. 

Let  us  pray. 

PRAYER  BY  THE  GENERAL  OVERSEER. 

Our  Father  who  art  in  the  heavens,  we  hallow  Thy  Name.  We 
beseech  Thee,  for  the  sake  of  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord,  to  grant  this  afternoon 
that  Thy  dear  people  who  have  been  cleansed  by  Thy  grace  from  their  sins, 
and  many  of  them  from  their  sicknesses,  and  are  on  the  way  to  Zion  above, 
shall  be  faithful  and  true  to  their  vows ;  that  they  shall  repent  of  their  past 
transgressions  against  their  fellowmen  and  against  their  God,  and  that  in 
this  matter,  of  which  we  have  spoken,  they  shall  especially  make  their 
vows  today  to  God.  Hear  us,  our  Heavenly  Father,  and  compassionate  our 
past  ignorance  that  we  did  not  see  Thy  word  and  understand  Thy  will. 
Many  of  us  have  lost  many  precious  years,  and  have  lost  much  blessing 
because  we  have  robbed  God.  Oh  God,  forgive  us  the  robbery  that  we  can 


12  Z ION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

never  repay,  and  in  Thy  grace  give  us  grace  to  amend  our  sinful  lives  that 
we  may  walk  before  Thee  with  more  perfect  heart,  and  do  those  things 
that  are  right  in  Thy  sight. 

Now  we  thank  Thee  for  every  one  of  us  who  has  been  for  years  past 
enjoying  the  blessing  that  comes  from  giving.  Oh,  how  Thou  hast  given  to 
us.  Lord,  give  to  us  more  abundantly.  The  more  we  have  given  of  what 
Thou  hast  given,  the  more  Thou  hast  increased  us,  until  today  in  the  midst 
of  persecutions  and  trial  Zion— we  bless  Thee  for  it — is  stronger  than  it  ever 
was  at  any  time  in  its  history. 

Now,  Father  in  Heaven,  grant  Thy  blessing  upon  this  enterprise,  upon 
all  the  new  Zion  Tabernacles,  and  all  the  new  Elders,  upon  all  the  old  Elders, 
Evangelists,  Deacons,  Deaconesses.  Grant,  oh  God,  that  our  glorious 
band  of  workers,  the  Seventies,  shall  be  reenforced  until  we  stand  at  least  a 
thousand  men  and  women  to  carry  out  Thy  command.  Oh  God,  bless  this 
great  company  of  workers. 

And  now  we  ask  Thee,  for  Jesus'  sake,  to  be  with  us  as  we  pray. 

All  repeat  together,  clause  by  clause,  the  following  words 
after  Dr.  Dowie: 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name,  by  the  Holy  Spirit's  power,  I  vow 
unto  Thee  that  I  will  pay  my  tithe  and  give  my  offerings  to  Thy  dear  Son; 
that  I  will  bring  them  into  the  Storehouse  of  Zion  that  there  may  be  meat 
in  this  house  and  power  to  send  forth  the  Gospel  to  every  part  of  this  great 
city,  and  to  every  part  of  the  world. 

Give  me  strength  to  keep  this  vow  for  Jesus'  sake,  and  help  me  to  pay 
not  only  my  present  tithe  but  as  much  of  the  past  as  I  can.  Forgive  my 
past  in  Thy  mercy,  and  help  me  to  keep  this  vow  until  I  pass  away  from 
this  earth,  for  Jesus'  sake.  Amen. 

Now,  did  you  mean  it? 

Voices—"  Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — By  the  grace  of  God  will  you  keep  it? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — 

Now,  our  Father,  we  have  felt  that  this  must  be  done,  and  we  are  so 
thankful  to  Thee  for  that  unanimity  of  spirit  in  Zion  which  has  made  in  the 
midst  of  trial  and  temptation  this  work  such  a  blessing,  made  it  possible  for 
us  to  do  it.  Give  us,  oh  God,  grace  now  to  pray  with  one  heart  and  voice  in 
the  words  that  our  Lord  taught  us  when  He  said :  "  After  this  manner  pray 
ye." 

The  Lord's  Prayer  was  then  chanted  by  the  choir  and  con- 
gregation, led  by  the  General  Overseer. 

The  announcements  were  then  made,  after  which  the  tithes 
and  offerings  were  received. 


A  SWIFT  WITNESS. 


INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight  and  profitable  unto  this  people,  and  unto  all  to  whom 
these  words  shall  come,  in  this  and  every  land,  in  this  and  all  the  coming 
time,  till  Jesus  come,  for  His  sake.  Amen. 

The  portion  of  Scripture  from  which  I  shall  speak  this 
afternoon  is  in  the  third  chapter  of  the  Book  of  Malachi,  and 
in  the  fifth  and  sixth  verses: 


Z ION'S   HOLY    WAR.  13 

And  I  will  come  near  to  you  to  judgment;  and  I  will  be  a  Swift  Witness 
against  the  sorcerers,  and  against  the  adulterers,  and  against  false  swearers; 
and  against  those  that  oppress  the  hireling  in  his  wages,  the  widow,  and 
the  fatherless,  and  that  turn  aside  the  stranger  from  his  right,  and  fear  not 
Me,  saith  the  Lord  of  hosts.  For  I  the  Lord  change  not ;  therefore  ye,  O 
sons  of  Jacob,  are  not  consumed. 

I  need  not  inform  those  who  are  well  read  in  the  Word  of 
God  that  this  is  a  part  of  the  wonderful  passage  concerning 
the  Messenger  of  the  Covenant.  I  will  enter  into  no  questions 
as  to  that  matter  this  afternoon. 

It  will  become  necessary  in  time  to  say  a  good  many  things 
that  it  is  best  that  I  should  not  say  now. 

But  I  am  clearly  within  my  right  in  any  case  in  saying  to 
you  that  God  herein  sets  forth  that  which  we  in  this  Holy 
War  make  a  fundamental  principle,  namely:  that  is  the  defini- 
tion which  God  Himself  gives  of  what  the  Kingdom  of  God  is, 
the  Kingdom  of  God  is  not  meat  and  drink,  but  is  Righteous- 
ness and  Peace  and  Joy  in  the  Holy  Ghost.  This  is  the  witness 
of  the  Holy  Ghost,  that 

THE     KINGDOM     OF     GOD     HAS     THREE     GREAT     DIVISIONS,    RIGHT- 
EOUSNESS,   PEACE    AND   JOY. 

There  is  no  Peace  except  there  first  be  Righteousness,  and 
there  can  be  no  real  Divine  Joy  without  Divine  Peace.  We 
desire,  in  Zion,  to  realize  God  within  us,  individually  and  col- 
lectively, as  the  King  of  Righteousness,  as  the  King  of  Peace, 
and  as  the  King  of  Everlasting  Joy. 

For  the  Joy  that  is  set  before  us,  we  may  well  endure  the 
cross,  we  may  well  despise  the  shame  as  the  Master  Himself 
did. 

Oh  what  a  joy  it  is  to  know  that  we  know  where  to  find 
Jesus. 

Not  in  circling  height, 

Nor  depth,  but  in  the  conscious  breast, 
Present  to  faith,  though  hid  from  sight, 
There  doth  His  Spirit  rest. 

All  scenes  alike  engaging  prove 

To  hearts  impressed  with  Thine  own  love, 

Where'er  they  dwell,  they  dwell  with  Thee: 
At  home,  abroad,  or  on  the  sea. 

Could  we  be  cast  where  Thou  art  not, 

That  were  indeed  a  dreadful  lot; 
But  regions  none  remote  we  call: 

Secure  of  finding  God  in  all. 

There  is  no  place  where  we  cannot  find  God.  There  is  no 
place  where  God  cannot  find  us. 

If  I  make  my  bed  in  hell,  behold  Thou  art  there. 

There  is  no  place  where  God  cannot  find  us.  It  is  impossi- 
ble for  me  to  conceive  of  any  place  in  this  boundless  universe 


14  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

where  God  is  not;  to  the  deepest  depths  of  the  deepest  hell 
His  hand  can  reach. 

Were  it  not  so,  it  would  be  from  a  broken  heart  that  I  would 
be  speaking  to  you  this  afternoon ;  a  heart  broken  beyond  pos- 
sibility of  mending.  I  could  not  believe  in  the  hopelessness, 
for  all  eternity,  of  any  man  born  of  woman.  I  never  have 
believed  it.  I  never  have  taught  it.  I  never  shall.  I  believe 
that  for  His  banished  ones  God  hath  provided  a  way  that  they 
may  return  to  Him.  I  believe  what  God  hath  said:  that 

THE    MERCY   OF    GOD    ENDURETH    FOREVER. 

I  believe  what  the  Holy  Ghost  has  witnessed  as  it  is  writ- 
ten: 

For  God  hath  shut  up  all  unto  disobedience  that  He  might  have  mercy 
upon  all. 

I  believe  what  Jesus  said: 

And  I,  if  I  be  lifted  up  from  the  earth,  will  draw  all  men  unto  Myself. 

I  believe  what  the  Holy  Ghost  witnesses  again: 

God,  who  is  the  Saviour  of  all  men,  specially  of  them  that  believe. 

I  believe  in  the  depth  of  the  riches  of  His  grace. 

My  joy  and  delight  is  to  think  that  there  never  will  be  a 
time,  until  the  last  miserable  spirit  throughout  all  eternity  is 
won  to  God,  in  which  we  shall  not  have  an  opportunity  of 
preaching  the  Gospel  that  shall  at  last  conquer  all. 

For  as  in  Adam  all  die,  so  also  in  Christ  shall  all  be  made  alive. 

I  believe  in  that  time  when  Christ — 

.  .  .  shall  deliver  up  the  Kingdom  to  God,  even  the  Father;  when  He 
shall  have  abolished  all  rule  and  all  authority  and  power.  For  He  must 
reign,  till  He  hath  put  all  His  enemies  under  His  feet.  The  last  enemy 
that  shall  be  abolished  is  death.  For  He  hath  put  all  things  in  subjection 
under  His  feet. 

When  death  and  hell  shall  have  been  cast  into  the  lake  of 
fire,  when  our  Lord  triumphant  shall  place  the  Universal  King- 
dom at  the  feet  of  His  Father,  then  God  shall  be  All  and 
in  all. 

My  conviction  is  deep,  strong,  abiding  in  the  ultimate 
triumph  of  good.  It  cannot  be  now;  it  must  be  hereafter. 

Multitudes  have  died  who  never  knew  of  Christ.  They 
never  rejected  the  Christ,  for  they  never  heard  of  Him.  They 
cannot  be  damned  forever  for  a  crime  which  they  never  com- 
mitted. It  is  impossible  to  believe  it. 

Thank  God,  it  finds  no  place  it  my  heart. 

Much  as  I  love  to  preach  the  Gospel  now,  how  much  more 
delightful  it  will  be  when,  free  from  the  flesh  and  the  limita- 
tions of  our  environments,  we  are  able  to  carry  the  Everlasting 
Gospel  to  those  who  have  perished  without  Christ.  To  lead 
bands  of  men  and  women  all  over  these  lands,  to  seek  the  poor 
and  perishing  in  depths  of  sin,  is  glorious. 


Z ION'S   HOLY    WAR.  15 

But  what  will  it  be,  beloved,  when  we  are  set  free,  and  have 
the  body  of  glory;  when  we  shall  not  be  weary  and  shall  not 
need  to  sleep  and  lie  down  weary,  as  we  do  now,  but  where  we 
shall  run  and  not  be  weary,  and  walk  and  not  faint?  for  we 
shall  change  our  strength  from  an  earthly  into  a  heavenly, 
from  a  human  into  a  Divine.  Even  now  we  can  begin  this 
glorious  life.  But  I  warn  all  men — that  is  my  business — that 

THE    GREAT    GOD    IN    THE    HEAVENS    IS    AT    WAR. 

The  King  of  Kings  and  Lord  of  Lords,  the  Logos  of  Gocl,  the 
Word  of  God,  has  come  forth  to  War.  That  warfare  has  been 
raging  in  the  heavens,  and  now  the  chariots  are  sweeping  very 
low.  The  last  days  in  which  the  final  conflicts  will  come  are 
not  far  away.  In  these  conflicts  the  spiritual  Zion  will  play 
the  mightiest  part  on  earth.  It  seems  today  to  some  to  be  a 
day  of  small  things,  and  it  is;  but  "who  hath  despised  the  day 
of  small  things"? 

More  rapidly,  in  proportion,  than  any  other  Church  organ- 
ization that  has  ever  been  established,  has  been  the  rapid, 
steady,  solid  growth  of  Zion.  Give  us  the  same  continuous 
proportionate  increase  and  there  is  not  a  part  of  the  world  that 
shall  not  be  judged  by  the  Saints  of  God  sent  forth  from  Zion 
within  this  generation. 

The  first  thing  that  God  gives  to  the  Messenger  of  His 
Covenant  when  his  office  is  fully  and  clearly  established  is  to 
make  that  Messenger  as  a  burning  fire,  as  a  refiner  of  silver, 
purging  the  sons  of  Levi,  purging  the  ministers  who  profess  to 
be  ministers  of  God.  The  other  day  one  of  our  great  enemies 
in  the  press — great  in  his  own  estimation,  and  contemptible  in 
God's — writing  one  of  his  daily  attacks  upon  myself,  said: 

Dr.  Dowie  has  announced  a  Holy  War  against  the  ministers  of  Chicago. 

Yesterday,  when  riding  down  south  to  look  at  a  New  Taber- 
nacle, the  Deacon  who  is  Superintendent  of  Construction  in 
Zion  called  my  attention  to  that  statement  in  the  paper.  I 
remarked  to  him:  "Deacon,  you  know  that  I  never  said  any 
such  thing." 

"No,"  he  said,  "you  did  not  say  it;  but  the  Daily  News 
understands  exactly  what  you  mean,  because  you  said  you 
were  going  to  have  a  three  months'  war  against  the  hosts  of 
hell  in  Chicago,  and  they  know  that  means  the  ministers." 
(Laughter  and  applause.) 

Now  that  was  pretty  bright  of  my  Deacon. 

I  said :   "  When  I  reflect  upon  it,  I  have  to  admit  the  fact  that 

EVERY     ONE    OF    THE     ATTACKS    UPON    ZION    HAS     BEEN    LED     BY   A 
PROFESSED    MINISTER    OF    THE    GOSPEL. 

It  was  the  same  way  nineteen  centuries  ago  when  Christ 
appeared.  It  was  the  same  way  when  the  Apostles  gave  wit- 
ness with  great  power  to  His  resurrection. 


1 6  ZION'S    HOLY    WAR. 

It  was  not  the  people,  it  was  not  the  Roman  heathen;  i 
was  the  sacred  council  of  Israel  that  denied  them  the  right  t 
preach  or  teach  at  all  in  Christ's  Name;  that  denied  them  th 
right  to  pray  the  prayer  of  faith  that  heals  the  sick. 

The  Messenger  of  God's  Covenant  and  all  the  true  Churc 
of  God  must  be  God's  Swift  Witnesses." 

FIRST   AGAINST   THE   SORCERERS. 

Please  to  understand  what  kind  of  a  witness  God  is  goin 
to  be  by  means  of  His  people.  That  is  how  God  is  going  t 
witness.  There  is  no  question  about  that  fact:  for  God 
Word  has  plainly  said: 

Ye  are  my  witnesses,  saith  the  Lord,  and  My  servant  whom  I  hav 
chosen. 

In  these  latter  days  the  Witnesses  must  be  led  on  by  som 
servant  whom  God  has  chosen.  In  the  latter  days  the  nation 
shall  be  gathered  together,  and  the  blind  people  who  hav 
eyes,  and  the  deaf  people  who  have  ears,  shall  be  brougF 
forth.  All  the  Nations  shall  be  assembled,  and  the  questio 
as  to  God's  manifested  power  shall  be  asked  publicly  of  thes 
witnesses. 

The  statement  is  made  in  God's  Word  that  these  witnesse 
are  to  stand  and  witness  to  the  fact  that  God  in  these  latte 
days  is  the  Healer  of  His  people. 

Let  them  bring  their  witnesses,  that  they  may  be  justified:  or  let  thei 
hear,  and  say,  It  is  truth. 

These  things  are  being  fulfilled ;  they  are  being  fulfille 
not  in  the  case  of  a  few,  but  in  the  case  of  thousands  and  ten 
of  thousands  of  witnesses, 

If  we  are  to  carry  out  the  Divine  purpose, 

WE   ARE   TO    BE,    FIRST   OF   ALL,    SWIFT   WITNESSES. 

Every  one  who  has  had  anything  to  do  with  law  courl 
must  know  that  the  witness  who  answers  quickly,  coolly,  co 
lectedly,  with  precision  and  accuracy  the  questions  that  ar 
addressed  to  him,  is  a  witness  that  the  counsel,  the  judge,  th 
jury  and  all  connected  love  to  hear. 

A  witness  who  understands  what    he    is    talking  about, 
witness  who  tells  the  truth  fully  and  yet  compactly,  is  a  Swii 
Witness. 

God  wants  us  to  be  Swift  Witnesses.  Time  is  passing  s 
quickly  that  we  have  no  time  for  long  controversies. 

The  day  when  men  wrote  long  controversial  volume: 
thank  God,  is  forever  past.  The  theological  libraries  are  fille 
with  treatises  which,  thank  God,  no  one  ever  read  or  means  t 
read. 

In  the  great  theological  libraries  of  the  world  there  ar 
vast  numbers  of  ponderous  tomes  on  theology  which  are  neve 
touched  except  by  the  worms. 


ZION'S   HOLY    WAR.  1 7 

The  old  Gospel  way  of  settling  an  argument  is  being 
brought  forth  clearly,  emphatically:  namely,  that  the  Church 
of  God  has  become  a  Witnessing  Church.  What  Christ  said 
when  the  Father  sent  the  Spirit  is  true:  "Ye  shall  be  My 
Witnesses." 

They  were  not  to  argue.  They  were  to  witness.  They 
were  themselves  to  be  the  living  facts. 

If  anybody  disputed  Salvation,  they  were  to  be  bold  and 
say,  "It  is  indisputable;  He  saved  me." 

When  anybody  said  that  Divine  Healing  was  a  disputed 
question,  they  were  to  be  bold  to  say,  "Thank  God,  it  is  not  a 
disputable  question;  He  healed  me." 

When  any  one  said  it  is  impossible  for  God  to  keep  a  man 
or  a  woman  from  certain  sins,  they  could  say,  "Thank  God, 
He  keeps  me." 

When  any  one  said  it  was  impossible  for  the  blood  of  Jesus 
Christ  to  cleanse  from  all  sin,  they  could  say,  "Thank  God, 
that  blood  cleanses  me." 

The  Church  needs  Witnesses  to  solid  facts  who  cannot  be 
disputed.  Thank  God, 

IN     ZION     WE      HAVE     WITNESSES     IN      THOUSANDS    AND     TENS     OF 

THOUSANDS. 

We  are  learning  in  Zion  to  be  Swift  Witnesses.  There  is 
no  use  talking  with  a  man  or  attempting  to  argue  with  a  man 
who  argues  in  a  circle. 

The  Churches  always  remind  me  of  that  man  who  had  a 
wooden  leg  who  was  intoxicated  and  started  for  home,  and  he 
wondered  that  he  never  got  there;  for  the  poor  fellow  stuck 
his  wooden  leg  into  a  hole,  and  he  walked  around  it  all  night. 
(Laughter.) 

The  Church  has  stuck  its  wooden  theological  leg  into  a 
hole,  and  is  walking  around  it  all  day,  and  all  night. 

The  Methodists  are  wondering  why  they  lost  two  thousand 
members  in  upper  and  lower  Michigan  last  year,  while  all  the 
time  they  were  preaching,  praying,  and  having  oyster  suppers. 
(Laughter.) 

They  were  going  at  it  tooth  and  nail.  They  were  walk- 
ing around  their  wooden  leg,  as  most  of  the  other  denomina- 
tions were. 

The  fact  of  the  matter  is  this,  humanity  is  utterly  tired 
of  it. 

It  is  time  for  the  Messenger  of  God's  Covenant  to  say, 
"You  must  be  Swift  Witnesses,  whose  testimony  is  unimpeach- 
able, whose  testimony  destroys  the  adversary." 

Against  whom  is  this  latter-day  witnessing  to  be  first 
directed? 

Voices — "  Sorcerers." 


1 8  Z ION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

Dr.  Dowie — Notice  that  it  is  not  against  the  drunkards.  It 
is  not  even  against  the  adulterer.  It  is  not  against  the  thieves. 
It  is  not  against  the  murderers. 

THE    FIRST    WITNESSING    IN    THIS    LATTER    DAY    IS    TO    BE    AGAINST 

THE    SORCERER. 

Do  you  see  it  right  up  there  spelled  out  in  castaway  medi- 
cine bottles,  on  the  walls  of  Zion?  Thanks  be  to  God,  Zion  is 
witnessing  against  the  sorcerer. 

The  word  means  the  same  in  Hebrew  as  in  Greek,  pharma- 
cists: makers  and  venders  in  deadly  poisons — sorcerers,  mur- 
derers. 

In  the  last  chapter  of  Revelation,  amongst  those  who  are 
on  their  way  to  hell  to  the  Lake  of  Fire  are  the  Sorcerers.  In 
the  twenty-second  chapter  and  the  fifteenth  verse  of  Revela- 
tion the  word  is  again  used: 

Without  are  the  dogs,  and  the  sorcerers,  and  the  fornicators,  and  the 
murderers,  and  the  idolaters,  and  every  one  that  loveth  and  maketh  a  lie. 

Next  to  the  dogs  come  the  sorcerers. 

The  same  wonderful  Word  in  the  previous  chapter  says: 

But  for  the  fearful  and  unbelieving,  and  abominable,  and  murderers, 
and  fornicators,  and  sorcerers,  and  idolaters,  and  all  liars,  their  part  shall 
be  in  the  lake  that  burneth  with  fire  and  brimstone;  which  is  the  second 
death. 

In  both  these  passages  the  word  that  is  translated  sorcerers 
\spharmakoi  (^ap/xaKoi) ,  pharmacists,  the  makers  and  venders 
of  deadly  drugs,  the  poisoners,  murderers,  sorcerers.  That  is 
the  word  you  see  on  every  drug  shop  in  this  city. 

It  is  remarkable  that  the  great  Witness  of  Zion  is,  first  of 
all,  to  be  against  these  accursed  poisons  to  which  the  Devil's 
own  law  endeavors  to  make  every  man  and  every  woman 
completely  subservient. 

The  claim  is  boldly  made  by  doctors  that  they  have  a  right 
to  control  humanity  from  the  cradle  to  the  grave;  that  the 
baby  shall  not  be  born  into  this  world  without  their  consent, 
and  without  their  presence,  and  that  the  man  or  woman  or 
baby  or  child  shall  not  die  unless  they  are  there. 

One  of  our  Elders  is  under  arrest  at  this  moment  in  Mans- 
field, Ohio,  for  what  crime,  do  you  think  ?  For  this — and  he 
was  held,  if  I  remember  correctly,  for  five  or  seven  thousand 
dollars  bonds  on  this  charge — that  he  had  interfered  with  an 
officer  in  the  execution  of  his  duty. 

Of  what  do  you  think  the  interference  consisted  ? 

The  Rev.  Cyrus  B.  Fockler,  an  Elder  of  this  Church,  had 
been  called  by  the  mother  and  father  of  a  child  to  see  their 
little  one,  the  mother  and  father  both  being  members  of  this 
Church.  Meanwhile  an  officer  of  the  Board  of  Health  came 
and  prescribed  medicine,  and  when  Elder  Fockler  was  asked 


Z 'ION'S   HOLY   WAR.  ig 

by  the  father  of  that  child  what  his  direction  or  advice  would 
be  regarding  that  medicine,  he  said,  u  Do  not  give  it  to  the 
child,  but  trust  God."  They  arrested  that  Elder  and  dragged 
him  to  prison,  saying  that  his  preventing  by  his  advice  the 
giving  of  medicine  to  that  child  was  a  crime  which  must  be 
punished:  for  it  was  "  resisting  an  officer."  The  mayor  of  that 
city  treated  him  shamefully  and  held  him  in  at  least  five 
thousand  dollars  bonds.  This  is  no  feeble  matter. 

THE    WHOLE    MATTER    IS    ONE    OF    CIVIL   AND    RELIGIOUS  LIBERTY. 

The  question  is,  Have  we  the  right,  or  have  we  not,  to  accept 
any  kind  of  a  religion  we  please,  or  no  religion  if  we  please,  so 
far  as  the  law  of  the  land  is  concerned  ?     Has  the  law  any  right 
to  interfere  with  our  conscience  ? 
'       Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Is  it  not  an  inalienable  right  that  you  shall  take 
any  kind  of  doctor  you  please,  or  trust  the  Ever-living  God  who 
said,  "I  am  the  Lord  that  healeth  thee,"  if  you  please? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Has  the  law  a  right  to  come  in  and  interfere 
with  your  children,  and  say  you  have  no  right  to  forbid  those 
children  receiving  medicine  ?  Can  doctors  claim  the  right  by 
law  to  open  your  child's  mouth  and  thrust  this  or  that  medicine 
down  its  throat,  whether  you  like  it  or  whether  you  do  not  ? 

The  Sorcerers  demand  the  right  by  law  to  take  that  child 
and  inoculate  it  with  disease,  or  put  poison  down  its  throat. 
Are  you  going  to  yield  to  that? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Zion  stands  today  a  Witness  against  the  Sorcer- 
ers, and  says  we  shall  never  yield  to  that.  Never! 

THE    CRAZE    FOR    INOCULATING. 

What  is  the  effect  of  yielding? 

Inasmuch  as  today  the  bacteriological  theory  of  disease  is 
universal;  and  as  all  the  doctors  are  hunting  for,  and  every 
now  and  then  announcing  that  they  have  found,  the  bacillus, 
the  microbe,  the  miserable  parasite  that  causes  this  or  that 
disease;  and  inasmuch  as  these  doctors  are  announcing  that 
they  are  compounding  lymphs  that  are  antidotes  for  these 
things  under  the  present  conditions,  it  is  not  an  exaggeration 
of  the  position  to  say  that  in  order  to  prevent  humanity  from 
having  typhus  fever,  or  smallpox,  or  leprosy,  or  yellow  fever, 
or  jaundice,  or  any  kind  of  disease  you  can  think  of;  soon  the 
Sorcerers  will  claim  the  right  to  start  inoculating  you  from  the 
crown  of  the  head  to  the  sole  of  the  feet  with  these  various 
diseases  in  order  that  you  shall  be  free  from  them. 

The  consequence  is  that  if  this  principle  is  accepted  there 
are  no  limitations  to  its  exercise.  Every  kind  of  filthy  disease 
can  be  by  law  injected  into  the  blood  and  jnto  the  flesh  of 


20  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

humanity.     The  result  of  that  will  be  that   humanity  will  rot! 

Rota   ROT!!! 

That  is  the  Devil's  trick  to  kill  off  the  Church.  But,  by  the 
Grace  of  God,  he  will  not  succeed.  (Amen.) 

Zion  is  a  Swift  Witness. 

By  the  way,  in  regard  to  Elder  Fockler's  case:  the  parents 
took  the  advice  of  the  Elder,  and  refused  to  give  the  child 
medicine.  The  child  is  living,  and  well,  and  happy  today. 
(Applause.)  But  the  Elder  is  about  to  appear  before  a  crim- 
inal court. 

A  Voice — "For  what  crime,  Doctor?" 

Dr.  Dowie — For  the  crime  of  interfering  with  the  Health 
Officer  in  the  execution  of  his  duty. 

The  Brother— "But  the  child  is  not  dead." 
Dr.  Dowie — But  it  does  not   matter  whether  the  child  died 
or  not;  he  interfered  with  the  Sorcerer,  and  to  interfere  with  a 
Sorcerer  is   a   crime.      (Laughter.)      At    least  the    mayor   of 
Mansfield  says  so. 

God  says: 

I  will  be  a  Swift  Witness  against  the  sorcerer. 

The  continual  witness  of  Zion  everywhere  throughout  this 
world  has  been,  first  of  all,  against  the  Sorcerer. 

My  own  witness  in  America  has  been  constant  and  contin- 
uous. From  the  moment  that  I  stood  upon  American  soil  at 
the  Golden  Gate,  I  have  claimed  the  right  to  preach  the  Ever- 
lasting Gospel;  that  God  in  Heaven,  our  Father,  was  in  Christ, 
His  Son,  Saviour  of  spirit,  soul  and  body  here  and  now;  that 
He  had  provided  by  His  atoning  sacrifice  a  complete  redemp- 
tion from  sin,  from  disease,  from  death,  from  hell,  and  from  all 
the  power  of  the  Devil.  I  will  preach  that  until  I  die.  (Ap- 
plause.) 

Well,  I  will  not  die.  When  the  end  comes  I  shall  sleep  in 
Jesus. 

But  I  will  preach  that. 

Thanks  be  to  God,  there  a  quarter  of  3  million  who  have 
risen  up  since  I  came  to  this  country  who  believe  it.  (Amen.) 

This  Witness  must  be  continued,  and  throughout  the  whole 
of  this  Holy  War  we  must  continue  to  witness  against  the 
Sorcerer. 

OUR    WITNESS     MUST    ALSO    BE   AGAINST    THE     SORCERER     OF   THE 

GROGSHOP. 

The  druggist  is  not  the  only  Sorcerer.  There  is  another 
Sorcerer  who  is  establishing  his  horrid  dens  on  all  sides — the 
saloonkeeper.  He  gets  a  license  from  the  State  to  sell  liquid 
fire  and  distilled  damnation.  He  gets  a  license  to  destroy 
every  virtue  and  promote  every  vice.  He  gets  a  license  to 
destroy  food  and  create  a  famine.  He  gets  a  license  to  destroy 


Z ION'S   HOLY    WAR.  21 

all  that  is  good,  and  cultivate  all  that  is  evil;  a  license  that 
only  the  Devil  in  hell  can  approve. 

We  must  stand  as  Witnesses  against  the  infernal  Liquor 
Traffic.  (Amen.  Applause.) 

It  is  a  Sorcerer  that  changes  a  beautiful  youth  into  a  maud- 
lin devil;  who  changes  a  virtuous  man  into  a  foolish  debauchee; 
who  changes  an  honest  man  into  a  thief.  The  accursed  wine- 
cup  changes  the  virtuous  wife  into  a  despised  harlot. 

We  must  Witness  against  it;   it  is  sorcery. 

We  must  witness  against  the  Sorcerers  who  are  selling  the 
nicotine  poison,  which  is  changing  the  beautiful  boy  into  the 
miserable  shadow  of  a  dirty  little  devil;  that  makes  him  a 
cigarette  fiend;  that  makes  him  wise  in  iniquity  beyond  his 
years;  that  sharpens  his  intellect,  for  the  moment,  for  evil;  and 
makes  him  the  poor  miserable  plaything  of  hell.  This  Sorcerer 
sweeps  them  in  multitudes  into  the  grave. 

WE      SHALL      BE      GOD'S     WITNESSES     AGAINST      EVERY      FORM       OF 

SORCERY. 

We  shall  witness  against  the  Sorcerer  of  so-called  Christian 
Science.  We  shall  witness  against  the  Sorcerer  of  Spiritualism 
and  fortune-telling  and  magic.  We  shall  witness  against  all 
the  sorceries  of  that  mother  of  harlots,  Rome,  whose  cup  is 
filled  with  abominations.  We  shall  witness  against  the  sor- 
ceries of  the  apostate  Protestant  Churches,  who,  failing  to  find 
the  Gospel  within  the  leaves  of  the  Bible,  are  preaching  upon 
the  "Sorrows  of  Satan,"  and  upon  the  Scarlet  Letter  of  Haw- 
thorne, and  upon  any  old  thing  except  the  Gospel. 

We  shall  witness  against  the  sorceries  of  those  who  are 
preaching  a  false  philosophy.  We  shall  witness  against  the 
sorceries  of  those  who  tell  us  that  the  way  to  preach  the  Ever- 
lasting Gospel  is  not  to  strike  with  the  Sword  of  the  Spirit,  but 
to  cover  over  with  the  mantle  of  love  every  kind  of  deformity 
and  filth,  and  to  bring  people  into  the  Church  with  all  their 
sins. 

We  shall  fight  against  the  sorceries  of  Secretism:  for  the 
intoxication  of  that  cup  of  devils  has  made  this  continent  a 
hell  to  millions. 

They  are  trying  to  tell  us  that  they  are  full  of  charities,  and 
that  they  hold  their  banquets  and  their  dances  in  the  sacred 
cause  of  charity.  It  is  a  lie.  It  imposes  upon  nobody,  and 
they  know  it  well. 

A  Masonic  paper  in  my  hand  today  stated  that  the  Masonic 
Order  in  all  its  branches  in  this  country  gave  no  less  than 
$10,000,000  a  year  to  charity. 

There  are  no  less  than  one  million  of  members  of  the 
Masonic  Order  in  America,  and  ten  millions  of  dollars  would 
only  be  less  than  three  cents  per  day  for  each  member — a  sum 


22  Z ION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

utterly  insufficient  to  pay  for  Masonic  cigars,  and  that  is  what 
I  think  it  amounts  to.  (Laughter.) 

Is  it  charity?  Is  it  charity  for  the  Masonic  Order  to  pay 
back  only  a  little  of  the  money  that  has  been  paid  in?  It  is 
all  a  lie. 

We  shall  protest  against  the  Sorcery  of  Secretism. 

Under  this  wide-sweeping  word  of  Sorcery  there  is  no  dev- 
iltry which  we  will  not  be  able  to  get  a  stroke  at. 

Zion  will  also  be  God's  Swift  Witness  "against  the  adul- 
terers, and  against  false  swearers,  and  against  those  who  oppress 
the  hireling  in  his  wages,  the  widow  and  the  fatherless;  that 
turn  aside  the  stranger  from  his  right,  and  fear  not  Me,  saith 
Jehovah  of  hosts.  For  I  the  Lord  change  not;  therefore  ye, 
O  sons  of  Jacob,  are  not  consumed." 

OUR    GOD    IS    AN    UNCHANGING    GOD. 

If  God  were  a  changing  God,  we  might  doubt  whether  His 
Word  is  true,  when  He  said:  "I  am  the  Lord  that  saveth 
thee."  But  His  Word  is  true. 

If  our  God  were  a  changeable  God,  we  might  doubt  His  Word 
when  He  says:  "I  am  the  Lord  that  healeth  thee."  But  we 
know  His  Word  is  true,  do  we  not,  Zion? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — If  we  had  a  changing  God,  we  might  well  doubt 
His  Covenant,  Jehova-Nissi,  "I  am  the  Lord  that  defendeth 
thee."  Has  He  not  defended  us,  Zion? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Will  we  not  trust  Him,  this  unchanging  Pro- 
vider, Jehova-Jireh,  "I  am  the  Lord  that  provideth  for  thee"? 
Can  we  get  a  better  Provider,  Saviour,  Healer,  Cleanser,  Keeper, 
or  Guide? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Shall  we  exchange  Him  for  the  sorcerers,  adul- 
terers and  false  swearers;  those  that  oppress  the  hireling  in 
his  wages;  the  robber  of  the  widow  and  the  fatherless;  those 
that  turn  aside  the  stranger  from  his  rights,  or  for  these  unjust 
judges  and  filthy  men  in  high  places  who  fear  not  God  nor 
regard  man? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — yerily  no.  We  shall  witness  for  God,  and  by 
God's  own  grace  that  witness  in  this  city  will  reach  into  every 
street  and  every  lane  and  every  home,  and  bring  hope  to  mul- 
titudes that  are  now  sitting  in  darkness  and  in  the  shadow  of 
death.  (Amen.) 

THIS     IS   ZION'S     PROCLAMATION    AS    WE     ENTER    UPON   THIS   WAR. 

All  who  desire  to  stand  with  God's  people  and  witness 
against  all  these  evils,  stand  to  your  feet.  (The  audience 
arose,  with  few  exceptions.) 


Z ION'S   HOLY    WAR.  23 

My  brothers  and  sisters,  will  you,  by  the  Grace  of  God,  wit- 
ness against  the  sorcerers,  against  the  adulterers,  against  the 
false  swearers,  against  those  that  oppress  the  hireling  in  his 
wages,  the  widow  and  the  fatherless,  that  turn  the  stranger 
from  his  right? 

Voices—"  Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Will  you  witness  against  men  who  do  not  fear 
God  nor  regard  man? 

Audience— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Will  you  witness  not  only  against  sin,  but  will 
you  witness  for  God? 

Audience— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Then  pray. 

PRAYER   OF   CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me 
power  to  do  right,  no  matter  what  it  costs.  Give  me  Thy  Holy  Spirit  that 
I  may  be  a  Swift  Witness  for  Thee  against  all  these  forms  of  evil,  and  a 
Swift  Witness  for  Thee,  that  Thou  art  the  Saviour, the  Healer,  the  Cleanser, 
the  Keeper,  the  Deliverer  of  Thy  people.  Help  me  to  help  others.  Cleanse 
me,  that  I  may  know  in  my  spirit  I  am  free  from  sin.  Heal  me,  that  I  may 
know  that  my  body  is  free  from  every  disease;  that  I  may  be  Thy  Witness 
for  Jesus'  sake  in  Chicago  and  throughout  America  and  to  the  uttermost 
ends  of  the  earth,  until  Jesus  come,  for  His  sake.  (All  repeat  the  prayer, 
clause  by  clause,  after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

Did  you  mean  it,  oh  Zion? 

Audience— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Will  you  live  it? 

Audience — "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — If  you  will  witness  to  this  every  hour  of  every 
day,  what  will  the  harvest  be?  It  will  be  a  glorious  harvest? 
We  shall  go  in  to  reap,  for  I  believe  that  the  harvest  of  the 
earth  is  over-ripe.  May  God  make  us  reapers.  (Amen.) 

After  the  hymn  "Sin  No  More"  had  been  sung,  the  serv- 
ices were  closed  by. Dr.  Dowie  pronouncing  the  following 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil,  and  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly,  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 
grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you,  bless 
you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 


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FEEDING^THE  FLOCK. 


ZION'S    HOLY    WAR. 


OPENING  OF   THE   WEST  SIDE   ZION  TABERNACLE  BY  THE 

GENERAL  OVERSEER.     SERMON:  GOD'S  MESSAGE 

OF  WAR   AND  PEACE. 


THE  foolish  enemies  of  Zion  who  had  been  loudly  proclaim- 
ing that  their  attacks  had  so  injured  the  General  Over- 
seer and  Zion  that  he  was  about  to  leave  Chicago  defeated, 
were  at  a  loss  to  explain  the  fact  that,  just  in  the  midst  of  a 
fusilade  of  attacks,  Zion  leased  two  large  public  halls  and  reno- 
vated and  refurnished  them  for  Zion  Tabernacles. 

In  their  eagerness  to  make  the  ridiculous  assertion  that  this 
Onward  Movement  was  but  the  last  desperate  plunge  of  a  ruined 
man,  the  newspapers  incidentally  advertised  the  opening  of 
these  new  Zion  Tabernacles,  so  that  they  could  not  contain  the 
crowds  which  came. 

On  the  morning  of  Lord's  Day,  October  8,  1899,  the  Gen- 
eral Overseer  opened  the  West  Side  Zion  Tabernacle,  at  the 
corner  of  West  Madison  and  Paulina  Streets,  under  the  most 
auspicious  circumstances.  An  audience  of  one  thousand  of 
the  most  intelligent  people  of  that  portion  of  the  city  listened 
with  attention  and,  in  many  cases,  with  approval  to  the  words 
of  truth.  A.  w.  N. 


West  Side  Zion  Tabernacle,  Lord's  Day  Morning,  October  8,  1899. 

As  Dr.  Dowie  appeared  upon  the  platform  he  said: 
I  welcome  you  all  to  Zion  Tabernacle.     May  God  bless  the 
West  Side  Zion  Tabernacle.     (Amen.) 

The  services  were  then  opened  by  singing  Hymn  No.  151: 

Come,  we  that  love  the  Lord, 

And  let  your  joys  be  known, 
Join  in  a  song  with  sweet  accord, 

And  thus  surround  the  throne. 

Dr.  Dowie  then  said: 

Now  we  shall  repeat  together,  as  we  are  accustomed  to  do 
in  Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  the  thirty-fifth  chapter  of  the 
Book  of  the  Prophet  Isaiah:  the  Song  of  Salvation,  Healing, 
Holiness,  and  of  Triumphant  Entry  into  the  Zion  above. 

War— 25 


26  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

After  repeating  this  wonderful  chapter,  Dr.  Dowie  read  from 
the  third  and  fourth  chapters  of  the  book  of  the  Prophet  Mal- 
achi,  adding  the  following  prayer: 

May  God  bless  His  Word. 

The  announcements  were  then  made,  after  which  Dr.  Dowie 
made  the  following  remarks: 

WELCOME    TO    WEST   SIDE   ZION   TABERNACLE. 

Good  friends,  I  want  once  more  to  say  how  glad  I  am  to 
see  every  seat  in  this  Tabernacle  filled  today.  As  there  are  a 
thousand  seats,  there  must  be  that  many  of  you. 

That  is  a  nice  beginning,  especially  as  we  are  a  "  poor,  decay- 
ing people,"  on  our  "last  legs."  (Laughter.) 

That  is  what  the  papers  say. 

I  am  glad  to  see  so  many  faces  which  I  do  not  know,  as  well 
as  many  which  I  do  know.  I  am  better  pleased  to  see  you 
whom  I  do  not  know  than  those  whom  I  know. 

I  told  the  people  at  Zion  Home  this  morning  that  there  was 
no  use  coming  to  the  West  Side,  that  they  would  not  get  in. 
I  said  I  did  not  want  to  see  their  faces,  because  I  wanted  to 
leave  every  seat  for  the  people  on  the  West  Side. 

I  told  the  people  generally  that  I  should  be  obliged  if  they 
would  go  to  Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  and  not  come  here 
today.  I  wanted  the  West  Side  people  to  get  an  opportunity 
of  filling  this  place.  I  am  glad  that  one-half  or  two-thirds  of 
this  audience  seems  to  me  to  be  unfamiliar. 

I  welcome  you  in  the  Name  of  the  Lord,  and  in  the  name  of 
the  Christian  Catholic  Church  in  Zion,  to  our  second  Zion 
Tabernacle  on  the  West  Side,  the  little  Sionski  Stan  (Bo- 
hemian Zion  Tabernacle)  being  the  first  on  this  side  of  Chicago. 


GOD'S  MESSAGE  OF  WAR  AND  PEACE. 


Dr.  Dowie  then  delivered  the  following  address: 
INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight  and  profitable  unto  this  people,  and  unto  all  to  whom 
these  words  shall  come,  in  this  and  every  land,  in  this  and  all  the  coming 
time,  till  Jesus  corne,  for  His  sake.  Amen. 

As  the  friends  who  are  gathered  here  this  morning  know, 
Zion  is  engaged  in  a  Three  Months'  Holy  War  Against  the 
Hosts  of  Hell  in  Chicago. 

The  Daily  News  says  that  I  am  engaged  in  a  Holy  War 
against  the  ministers  of  Chicago. 

I  said  to  a  friend,  "I  never  said  that." 

"That  is  true,"  he  said,  "but  the  Daily  News  knows  where 
to  find  the  hosts  of  hell.  (Laughter.) 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  27 

It  seemed  a  hard  thing  for  my  friend  to  say,  that  the  minis- 
ters are  leading  the  hosts  of  hell. 

There  are  but  few  ministers  in  this  city  who  have  exer- 
cised even  the  commonest  courtesy  and  good  sense  toward 
Zion. 

The  exceptions  are  so  few  that  except  in  our  own  min- 
istry, one  might  say,  one  can  number  them  on  one  hand.  The 
vast  majority  are  to  be  found  fighting  Zion. 

This  warfare  is  a  very  real  one. 

I  have  been  engaged  in  it  for  some  time.  This  is  simply  a 
special  series  of  attacks  upon  the  enemy  to  carry  the  war  into 
Africa,  as  they  say. 

My  subject  this  morning  is  an  introductory.  It  is  a  part  of 
that  which  I  am  going  on  with  in  this  Tabernacle  and  else- 
where all  over  the  city. 

I  desire  to  make  the  series  of  discourses  harmonious, 
although  Satan  will  not  love  the  music.  The  discourse  .this 
morning  is  on:  God's  Message  of  War  and  Peace  by  God's 
Messenger  in  Zion. 

Now  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  came  to  Zion  long  ago,  and  this 
Gospel  was  His  Message  of  war  and  peace. 

I  will  read  two  extracts,  one  from  Matthew,  and  one  from 
John,  and  I  desire  you  all  to  attentively  consider  them. 

A  great  many  people  think  that  Christ  came  to  bring 
Peace. 

They  make  a  great  mistake  about  that.  They  do  not  under- 
stand the  peace  of  Jesus. 

HE    CAME    NOT   TO    BRING    PEACE,    BUT   A   SWORD. 

These  are  His  own  words: 

Think  not  that  I  came  to  send  peace  on  the  earth :  I  came  not  to  send 
peace,  but  a  Sword. 

In  the  fourteenth  chapter  of  the  Gospel  according  to  St. 
John,  at  the  twenty-seventh  verse,  among  the  last  words  which 
Jesus  spoke  to  His  disciples  after  He  had  eaten  with  them  the 
Last  Supper,  are  these: 

Peace  I  leave  with  you;  My  peace  I  give  unto  you:  not  as  the  world 
giveth,  give  I  unto  you.  Let  not  your  heart  be  troubled,  neither  let  it  be 
fearful. 

These  two  passages  do  not  seem  to  harmonize. 

In  the  proclamation  of  War  and  Peace  which  it  is  my  duty  to 
constantly  make,  and  at  this  time  especially  to  make  in  Chicago, 
I  tell  you  the  great  purpose  of  Christ  in  coming  to  this  earth 
was  to  give  to  His  people  a  Sword,  and  to  give  them  the  power 
to  use  it,  so  that  they  might  be  armed  in  such  a  manner  that, 
standing  shoulder  to  shoulder,  they  might  push  the  battle  to 
the  gates  of  hell  and  drive  the  enemy  out  of  earth  back  into 
hell. 


28  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

That  is  the  purpose  of  the  Kingdom  of  God.  That  purpose 
our  Lord  made  plain  to  us  in  this  Church  of  the  Living  God  as 
reconstructed  by  Himself. 

THE   ARMOR    OF   A   SOLDIER    IN    GOD'S   ARMY. 

The  individual  equipment  of  every  soldier  in  the  great  Army 
of  the  Lord  is,  first,  a  helmet,  which  is  called  Salvation.  The 
loins  are  girt  about  with  a  girdle  called  Truth.  A  breastplate 
which  is  called  Righteousness  is  worn,  and  the  feet  are  shod 
with  the  preparation  of  the  Gospel  of  Peace.  The  shield  of 
Faith,  which  is  able  to  quench  all  the  fiery  darts  of  the  wicked, 
is  held  in  one  hand,  and  in  the  other  the  Sword  of  the  Spirit, 
which  is  the  Word  of  God.  So  armed,  the  man  of  God  is 
stronger  than  all  the  powers  of  earth  or  hell.  If  he  takes  his 
proper  place  in  the  Army,  and  marches,  each  one  in  his  rank, 
straight  forward,  then  the  Army  of  Zion  must  go  on  to  victory. 
(Amen.) 

Our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  came  not  to  send  peace  first,  but  a 
Sword,  and  that  Sword  of  the  Spirit  is  the  Word  of  God. 

That  Word  of  God  witnesses: 

Against  the  sorcerers,  and  against  the  adulterers,  and  against  the  false 
swearers;  and  against  those  that  oppress  the  hireling  in  his  wages,  the 
widow,  and  the  fatherless,  and  that  turn  aside  the  stranger  from  his  right, 
and  fear  not  Me,  saith  Jehovah  of  Hosts. 

That  Sword  of  the  Spirit  which  God  has  placed  in  the  hands 
of  those  who  are  extending  the  Kingdom  of  God  is,  first, 
Righteousness,  then  Peace,  and  then  Joy  in  the  Holy  Ghost. 

The  first  condition  of  the  Kingdom  of  God  is  righteousness. 
It  does  not  matter  what  man's  conception  of  righteousness  may 
be.  It  is  the  Divine  conception  of  righteousness  that  you  and 
I  have  to  do  with. 

If  you  do  not  think  as  God  thinks,  you  will  get  into  trouble. 

Obey  God's  law. 

It  does  not  matter  what  I  say,  if  I  am  not  telling  you  that 
which  is  Eternal  Truth.  If  I  do  show  you  an  Eternal  Truth, 
and  if  you  obey  it,  you  will  be  blessed,  and  if  you  do  not  obey 
it,  you  will  be  damned. 

Now  you  cannot  trifle  with  God. 

THE    SWORD    OF   THE     SPIRIT    WHICH     GOD     HAS    SENT,  IS    NOT   A 
SWORD   OF   PEACE. 

It  is  a  two-edged  sword  of  heavenly  temper  keen, 

And  grievous  are  the  wounds  it  makes  where'er  it  glides  between. 

Tis  death  to  sin, 

Tis  life  to  him  that  mourns  for  sin; 

It  maketh  and  it  endeth  strife. 

Makes  war  and  peace  within. 

When  the  Word  of  God  enters,  it  enters  to  kill,  but  to  kill 
only  that  which  is  evil.  It  enters  to  give  life,  for  it  is  that 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  29 

entrance  of  God's  Word  which  brings  life  and  love  and  perfect 
liberty. 

It  is  only  God's  Word  that  can  let  you  into  God's  heaven; 
that  can  enable  you  to  see  God's  will;  that  can  enable  you  to 
do  that  which  is  right  in  His  sight. 

The  proclamation  which  I  make  to  you  this  morning  is  that 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  in  coming  to  this  earth  sent  a  Sword.  The 
proclamation  further  is  that  Zion  has  that  Sword.  The  procla- 
mation is,  further,  that  we  will  put  that  Sword  into  every 
stinkpot  and  beerpot  and  transgressor  of  every  kind  among 
you. 

We  mean  to  put  that  Sword  into  the  heart  of  every  one  of 
you  who  is  not  obeying  God,  no  matter  who  you  are. 

The  power  of  the  Sword  of  the  Spirit  is  that  it  never 
destroys  the  Divine.  It  destroys  only  the  diabolical.  It  is  like 
the  Fire  of  God:  it  burns  up  the  unclean  and  the  filthy,  and 
refines  and  purifies  from  it  the  dross.  The  purpose  of  God  in 
this  matter  is  that  His  messengers  shall  bring  a  Message 
which  shall  be  like  a  fire  beneath  the  pot,  and  shall  keep  it 
boiling  all  the  time,  and  shall  refine  and  purge  the  sons  of  Levi 
until  they  have  been  so  perfectly  refined  that  they  will  reflect 
the  image  of  Christ  the  Refiner  Himself. 

The  great  purpose,  then,  of  Zion  is  to  carry,  first,  this  Mes- 
sage of  War,  War  with  sin,  War  with  Satan,  War  with  disease, 
War  with  the  powers  of  death,  War  with  the  powers  of  hell. 

We  are  not  at  peace.  We  cannot  be  at  peace  with  any  who 
are  at  peace  with  the  Devil,  for  to  be  at  peace  with  the  Devil 
is  to  be  at  war  with  God. 

We  shall  not  be  at  peace  with  those  who  serve  the  Devil. 
We  shall  love  them.  We  shall  serve  them.  We  shall  try  to 
win  them.  We  shall  try  to  break  down  their  enmity,  but  we 
shall  never  be  at  peace  with  them  until  they  are  at  peace  with 
God. 

Peace!  Peace  to  him  that  is  far  off,  and  to  him  that  is 
near;  but 

There  is  no  peace,  saith  the  Lord,  unto  the  wicked. 

They  are  like  the  troubled  seas  which  cast  up  mire  and  dirt 
continually.  There  is  no  peace  for  them  on  earth;  no  peace  in 
hell.  » 

THERE  IS  NO  PEACE  FOR  ANY  ONE  WHO  DOES  NOT  UNCONDITION- 
ALLY SURRENDER  TO  GOD. 

The  policy  of  this  country  today  in  dealing  with  the  Fili- 
pinos, be  it  right  or  wrong,  is  based  upon  the  principle  that 
the,  sovereign  power  can  never  make  any  other  terms  with  a 
rebel  than  that  of  unconditional  surrender. 

The  government  would  lose  its  power,  its  authority,  its 
supremacy,  if  it  made  any  other  terms  with  a  rebel. 


30  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

God  sends  His  servant  here  to  witness  for  Him.  We  are 
ambassadors  of  Christ.  I  tell  you  in  Christ's  Name  today  that 
God  has  no  other  terms  with  you  rebels  than  that  of  immediate 
and  unconditional  surrender. 

A  man  says,  "Can  I  not  think  as  I  like?" 

No.     You  must  think  as  God  thinks. 

"Can  I  not  do  what  I  like?" 

No.     You  must  do  what  God  tells  you. 

"Can  I  not  say  what  I  please?" 

No.     You  have  to  say  what  God  tells  you. 

"Can  I  not  use  my  money  as  I  choose?" 

No.     It  is  God's  money,  and  you  are  to  use  it  as  He  tells  you. 

"Can  I  not  conduct  my  business  as  I  please?" 

No.  You  are  God's  creation,  and  you  must  conduct  business 
in  such  a  way  as  to  enable  you  to  stand  before  the  judgment 
seat  of  God  and  give  a  good  account  to  God  of  it. 

There  is  no  place  in  this  universe  except  in  hell  for  the  man 
who  will  do  wrong.  That  is  a  plain  word,  but  it  must  be  true. 
There  can  be  no  other  place. 

Zion's  Message  is  not  one  of  peace  here.  We  are  not  at  peace 
with  the  apostate  denominational  churches.  We  are  not  at 
peace  with  the  Church  of  Rome,  for  the  Church  of  Rome  is 
not  at  peace  with  God. 

We  dare  not  be  at  peace  with  that  blasphemer  who  sits 
upon  the  seven  hills  at  Rome,  with  his  triple  tiara,  and  dares 
to  tell  mankind  that  he  is  an  infallible  being. 

There  is  but  one  infallible  Being.  That  is  God.  When  a 
man  declares,  "I  am  infallible,"  he  must  be  the  "man  of  sin 
revealed."  That,  we  say,  is  the  proper  title  for  the  Pope. 

Zion  has  no  fears  about  this  matter.  It  does  not  matter 
what  the  Roman  Catholics  do,  think  or  threaten.  Zion  com- 
ing forward  in  the  Name  of  Christ  is  Catholic,  but  it  is  not 
Roman  Catholic.  It  denounces  Rome. 

Rome  has  been  the  betrayer  of  Christianity. 

We  also  denounce,  whether  it  is  in  Rome,  or  whether  it  is 
in  the  Lutheran  Church,  the  accursed  doctrine  that  man  can  be 
made  a  Christian  by  having  water  sprinkled  upon  his  nose 
when  he  is  a  baby.  That  is  a  lie. 

YOU    CANNOT   MAKE   A   MAN   A    CHRISTIAN     BY   SPRINKLING    WATER 

ON    HIS    FACE. 

That  cannot  change  his  heart.  The  Lutheran  dogma  and 
the  Roman  Catholic  dogma  of  baptismal  regeneration  is  false. 

It  is  false  in  your  own  experience.  I  ask  you  who  were 
sprinkled  when  you  were  babies,  did  that  change  your  hearts? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  it  make  you  Christians? 

Voices—"  No." 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  31 

Dr.  Dowie — Baptismal  regeneration  is  a  lie.  It  is  absurd. 
It  is  no  Baptism  at  all.  The  only  Baptism  the  Bible  knows 
anything  about  is  the  Baptism  of  those  who  repent  and  believe, 
and  a  baby  can  neither  repent  nor  believe. 

Hence  we  fight  that  doctrine  which  is  responsible  for  so 
much  wickedness;  that  lie  which  has  kept  such  multitudes  in 
darkness,  who  have  believed  that  by  some  hocus-pocus  process 
they  were  made  Christians  when  they  were  sprinkled  as  babies. 

That  is  false.  It  is  not  in  the  Word  of  God.  It  is  not  in 
accordance  with  the  Word  of  God.  It  is  not  in  accordance 
with  the  facts.  Zion  is  also  here  to  denounce  the  accursed 
dogma  of  transubstantiation.  How  any  man  dares  to  stand 
up  in  this  city  today  and  tell  you  that  a  little  piece  of  wet  flour, 
molded  between  his  fingers,  and  stamped  with  a  stamp,  becomes 
the  body,  blood  and  bones  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  is  more 
than  I  can  understand.  It  is  an  infernal  lie.  It  comes  from 
the  deepest  depths  of  hell.  It  is  blasphemy.  When  men  bow 
down  and  worship  that  piece  of  bread,  they  are  idolaters. 

May  God  enable  Zion  to  smash  that  idolatry.     (Applause.) 

Now  you  are  getting  it  hot.  (Laughter.)  I  have  seen,  I 
should  think,  about  ten  Roman  Catholics  and  ten  Lutherans 
go  out.  (Laughter.)  However,  there  are  plenty  eager  to  take 
your  places.  That  is  the  way  with  people  who  cannot  stand 
the  truth.  Nevertheless,  God  will  follow  them  and  bring  them 
back.  He  brought  back  some  of  you,  did  He  not? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — "You  were  Roman  Catholics,  some  of  you, 
were  you  not? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — And  some  of  you  were  Lutherans? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — And  some  of  you  were  nothing  at  all. 
(Laughter.) 

Zion  is  here  to  denounce  false  doctrine,  and  destroy  it. 
Zion  loves  all  mankind.  We  would  not  be  God's  children  if 
we  did  not.  But  Love  must  speak  the  Truth,  and  the  whole 
truth;  and,  if  men  and  women  are  really  wise,  they  will  listen. 
They  will  bring  every  word  that  is  said  from  this  platform  to 
the  test  of  the  Word  of  God.  If  it  is  in  accordance  with  the 
Word  of  God,  it  is  right,  is  it  not? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — 

ZION     HAS     COME,    ALSO,    TO     SMASH     THE    APOSTATE    PROTESTANT 

CHURCHES, 

which  have  the  form  of  godliness  and  deny  the  power.  I 
especially  feel  that  it  is  time  that  the  Baptist  Church  was 
utterly  smashed. 


32  ZION'S  HOLY    WAR. 

The  Lord  have  mercy  on  you  miserable  Baptists.  (Laugh- 
ter.) You  have  just  enough  water  to  turn  the  Congregational 
dust  into  mud.  (Laughter.)  The  Lord  have  mercy  on  you 
Congregationalists,  for  you  have  no  water  at  all,  and  you  are 
living  upon  the  Pilgrim  Fathers'  dust;  the  brains  of  a  dead 
theology.  May  the  good  Lord  take  you  up  out  of  that  Valley 
of  Dry  Bones. 

And  as  for  you  Presbyterians,  the  Lord  have  mercy  upon 
you,  for,  if  there  is  a  hard,  miserable  people  on  God  Almighty's 
earth,  it  is  you.  (Laughter.) 

I  know  all  about  you.  I  was  born  in  Presbyterian  Scotland. 
I  was  educated  there.  I  have  seen  the  Elder  selling  whisky 
all  the  week  and  standing  in  the  vestibule  of  the  church  on 
Sunday  with  a  spotless  white  shirt  and  a  white  cravat,  looking 
like  a  saint.  He  had  been  living  six  days  of  the  week  like  a 
devil.  (Laughter.) 

In  the  Presbyterian  Church  it  does  not  matter,  so  long  as 
you  are  willing  to  subscribe  to  the  creed,  and  to  give  a  little, 
and  to  be  a  little  bit  decent  in  the  outward  life.  You  can  go 
on  sinning. 

So  it  is  with  many  churches. 

As  for  the  Methodist  Church,  it  has  gone  to  the  Devil. 
It  is  not  going  to  the  Devil;  it  has  gone. 

"What  do  you  mean,  Doctor?     Was  John  Wesley  a  devil?" 

No.  When  I  want  good  reading  I  take  down  John  Wesley's 
Journals.  I  read  them,  and  thank  God  for  them.  I  praise  God 
for  that  apostolic  man. 

Then  I  think 

HOW     FAR     THE     METHODIST     CHURCH     OF    TODAY   IS     FROM    JOHN 

WESLEY. 

John  Wesley  knew.  He  was  right  when  he  said  that  the 
day  would  come  when  people  instead  of  being  poor  would 
become  rich,  and  in  that  day  that  they  would  take  unto  them- 
selves teachers  having  itching  ears;  men  whom  they  would 
place  in  their  pulpits  for  their  eloquence,  and  for  their  con- 
formity to  the  world.  In  that  day  when  learning  and  eloquence 
would  take  the  place  of  piety  in  the  Methodist  body,  he 
declared  the  decay  of  Methodism  in  these  prophetic  words, 
"write  Ichabod  over  the  doors  of  the  Methodist  Society,  for 
the  glory  will  have  departed." 

That  day  has  come. 

Today  the  Methodist  Church  is  ruled  by  Worldly  Policy  and 
by  Secret  Societies,  and  it  no  longer  fights  for  God. 

I  make  the  charge  here  bluntly,  plainly,  boldly,  and  I  will 
not  take  it  back.  I  will  fight  it  out  on  that  line  with  the 
Methodist  Church:  that  the  Methodist  Church  has  gone  to  the 
Devil,  because  it  has  gone  into  the  Masonic  Order. 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  33 

It  has  gone  where  Ballington  Booth  has  gone.  I  have  an 
extract  from  a  paper  here  which  says: 

General  Ballington  Booth,  of  the  Volunteers  of  America,  is  now  a  third 
degree  Master  Mason.  He  was  inducted  into  this  rank  on  Thursday  night 
in  the  presence  of  the  leading  members  of  McClellan  Lodge,  New  Jersey. 
He  afterwards  paid  this  tribute  to  the  degrees:  "1  previously  had  under- 
stood that  there  was  much  in  Masonry  which  was  commendable,  but  I  had 
no  conception  that  its  principles  were  so  noble  and  its  work  so  instructive." 

I  have  no  difficulty  now  in  understanding  how  it  is  that, 
according  to  the  statistics  published  in  the  New  York  Inde- 
pendent of  January  7th  of  this  year,  the  Volunteers  of  America 
have  lost  in  one  year  five  thousand  of  their  members.  Their 
own  statistics  showed  a  decrease  in  one  year  from  ten  thou- 
sand to  five  thousand. 

I  shall  not  be  surprised  if  they  vanish  away  altogether.  I 
say  to  Ballington  Booth,  to  the  bishops  of  the  Methodist 
Church,  to  the  ministers  of  the  Methodist  Church,  to  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Methodist  Church: 

IT     IS    IMPOSSIBLE    FOR    A    MAN   TO     BE   A   FREEMASON    AND    BE    A 

CHRISTIAN. 

When  you  enter  the  Masonic  Lodge,  you  must  leave  Jesus 
Christ  behind  you. 

I  say,  without  fear  of  contradiction,  that  the  Name  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ  is  not  to  be  found  in  all  the  so-called  sacred 
and  beautiful  work  of  the  first  three  degrees  of  the  Blue  Lodge. 
In  the  first  three  degrees  of  Freemasonry  the  Name  of  Jesus  is 
cut  out  of  all  the  quotations  from  the  Bible,  where  it  rightfully 
occurs. 

There  is  no  room  for  Jesus  in  a  Masonic  Lodge:  for  Baal, 
the  heathen  sun-god,  dwells  in  the  darkness  there. 

Freemasonry  is  Christless  from  the  first  degree  to  the  thirty- 
third  degree,  in  straight  Scottish  Rite  Masonry. 

Jesus  Christ,  the  Son  of  God,  is  not  in  it.  A  bogus  story  of 
Hiram  Abiff,  the  son  of  the  widow  of  Tyre,  being  murdered, 
his  body  being  hid  beneath  the  rubbish  of  the  temple,  and 
afterward  being  buried  and  after  fifteen  days  resurrected  by 
King  Solomon,  is  substituted.  That  story  is  a  lie  from  start  to 
finish.  Freemasonry  is  unchristian.  It  is  antichristian. 

I  therefore  say  that  when  a  Church's  bishops,  and  ministers, 
and  presiding  elders,  and  its  leading  members  have  gone  over  to 
a  system  where  from  the  first  degree  to  the  thirty-third  there 
is  no  Christ,  that  Church  has  ceased  to  be  a  Christian  Church. 
The  proper  name  henceforth  for  that  Church  is  Masonic 
Episcopal  Church. 

The  Christian  Catholic  Church  bears  witness  for  God  in  this 
matter.  We  defy  the  powers  of  hell. 

They  tell  us  that  we  cannot  say  this  in  Chicago  without 
being  made  to  bite  the  dust. 


34  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

Very  well,  let  me  bite  the  dust  in  death,  but  out  of  my  blood 
will  arise  ten  thousand  times  ten  thousand  to  smash  this 
accursed  system.  (Loud  applause.) 

Bishops,  ministers,  leading  members  of  the  Methodist 
Church  who  belong  to  the  Masonic  Order,  you  know  that  you 
betrayed  your  Lord  and  sold  Him  fora  mess  of  dirty  secretism 
pottage. 

Zion  stands  against  these  things. 

What  does  Zion  stand  in  friendship  with? 

Zion  stands  in  friendship  with  every  honest  man,  and  every 
honest  woman,  who  is  prepared  to  say,  "Christ  is  Lord  of  all, 
and  the  Word  of  God  is  the  absolute  and  infallible  rule  of  faith 
and  practice."  (Amen.) 

Zion  stands  against  every  form  of  hypocrisy  and  every  form 
of  false  doctrine.  We  love  our  fellowmen  too  much  to  be 
afraid  of  them. 

May  God  grant  that  the  fear  of  man  which  bringeth  a  snare 
shall  never  be  in  the  heart  of  any  man  or  women,  or  child,  in 
Zion.  (Amen.) 

ZION    IS   AGAINST   SECRETISM    IN   EVERY   FORM. 

Zion  says  you  must  have  no  fellowship  with  the  infernal 
works  of  darkness,  but  rather  reprove  them. 

Zion  has  nothing  in  common  with  secrecy.     Jesus  said: 

For  every  one  that  doeth  ill  hateth  the  light,  and  cometh  not  to  the 
light,  lest  his  works  should  be  reproved.  But  he  that  doeth  the  truth 
cometh  to  the  light,  that  his  works  may  be  made  manifest,  that  they  have 
been  wrought  in  God. 

What  do  we  want  with  Secret  Societies  when  we  have  God? 
What  do  we  want  with  peeping  and  muttering,  and  all  kinds  of 
silly  and  foolish  things,  taking  up  time  and  money,  taking  you 
away  from  God? 

Have  we  not  enough  to  do  in  taking  care  of  our  wives  and 
our  families,  and  our  business,  and  doing  our  work  in  the 
Church  of  God,  and  living  honest,  upright  lives,  without  going 
into  these  Secret  Societies? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — 

ZION    DENOUNCES    EVERY   FORM    OF   SENSUAL    PASSION. 

Zion  wants  you  to  follow  Jesus  and  do  good;  to  love  God, 
and  to  have  happy  homes,  and  be  healthy.  Zion  says  you 
shall  not  defile  your  body,  for  God  has  said: 

If  any  man  destroyeth  the  Temple  of  God,  him  shall  God  destroy. 

Your  bodies  were  created  to  be  the  Temples  of  God. 

When  you  put  nicotine  poison  into  your  body,  you  are  defil- 
ing it  and  destroying  it. 

You  are  creating  paralysis,  which  will  affect  the  eye,  and 
every  part  of  the  body.  You  are  creating  amaurosis.  You  are 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  35 

creating  disease  of  the  stomach,  and  of  the  bowels.  When  you 
eat  swine's  flesh  in  connection  with  tobacco  and  liquor,  you 
have  the  three  things  which  will  make  cancer  almost  a  cer- 
tainty for  you. 

That  cancer  will  take  you  out  of  this  world.  It  will  make 
you  smell  the  Devil,  if  you  did  not  smell  him  before. 

We  do  not  believe  that  a  man  who  is  wilfully  and  continu- 
ously defiling  the  Temple  of  .God  can  be  a  Christian.  He  may 
be  a  Christian  in  your  opinion,  but  in  mine  he  smells  like  a 
devil. 

Oh  you  stinkpots!  (Laughter.)  You  unmitigated  stink- 
pots! You  fellows  that  chew  and  smoke  and  squirt!  (Laugh- 
ter.) You  spewing  buzzards!  (Laughter.)  You  call  your- 
selves Christians.  Is  there  one  of  you  who  would  dare  to  bring 
up  your  quid,  your  cigarette,  your  cigar,  and  kneel  down  here 
and  pray,  "Oh  God,  my  Heavenly  Father,  help  me  to  chew  for 
Thy  glory  (laughter);  to  smoke  for  Thy  glory.  For  Jesus' 
sake,  help  my  wife  and  dear  children  to  follow  my  good  exam- 
ple. Make  them  all  chew  as  soon  as  they  can  suck.  (Laugh- 
ter.) Make  them  all  smoke.  (Laughter.)  Bless  my  dear 
wife  and  help  her  to  smoke,  and  chew  too."  (Laughter.) 

Will  you  pray  that,  you  stinkpots;  you  dirty  dogs?  Do  you 
want  your  wife  to  smoke?  Why  do  you  not  bring  her  home  a 
box  of  cigars?  Do  you  want  your  children  to  chew?  No. 
You  want  to  have  a  monopoly  of  all  the  muck  yourself,  you 
stinkpot!  (Laughter.) 

You  Methodists,  Baptists  and  Presbyterians  who  sell 
tobacco,  are  selling  amaurosis,  paralysis,  dyspepsia,  and  cancer. 

ZION    PROTESTS   AGAINST   THE   ACCURSED   ALCOHOLIC   POISON. 

Zion  says  that  the  man  who  drinks  liquid  fire  and  distilled 
damnation,  and  the  man  who  makes  it,  and  the  man  who  puts 
a  bottle  to  his  neighbor's  mouth  and  causes  him  also  to  be 
drunken,  earns  the  damnation  of  God,  and  the  contempt  of  all 
good  and  true  men  upon  earth. 

What!  You,  a  Christian,  and  sell  that  which  destroys  food 
and  creates  famine?  You,  a  Christian,  and  sell  that  which 
destroys  the  home,  destroys  every  virtue,  and  promotes  every 
vice?  You,  a  Christian,  when  you  help  to  fill  the  jails  with 
criminals  and  the  houses  of  shame  with  devotees? 

My  God,  you  are  not  a  Christian.  You  are  the  high  priest 
of  the  Devil. 

Then  consider  the  chemist  at  the  corner.  You  say,  "What 
about  him? " 

Do  you  think  the  man  who  keeps  a  saloon — the  Hinky 
Dinks,  you  know  (laughter),  and  that  kind  of  thing— do  you 
think  that  man  is  going  to  heaven? 

Voices—"  No." 


36  ZSON'S  HOLY   WAR. 

Dr.  Dowie — Do  you  think  that  he  is  promoting  the  welfare 
of  his  fellowmen? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — If  a  man  is  going  to  hell  because  he  sells  one 
poison,  alcohol,  where  is  the  druggist  going  who  sells  alcohol, 
cocaine,  nux  vomica,  ajsenica,  strychnia,  morphine,  and  a  hun- 
dred other  poisons  which  are  destroying  men? 

Zion  tells  you  that  the  Word  of  God  says  that  they  are 
going  to  hell. 

In  the  Book  of  Revelation,  in  the  twenty-first  chapter  and 
the  eighth  verse: 

But  for  the  fearful,  and  unbelieving,  and  abominable,  and  murderers, 
;md  fornicators,  and  sorcerers,  and  idolaters,  and  all  liars,  their  part  shall 
be  in  the  lake  that  burneth  with  fire  and  brimstone;  which  is  the  second 
death. 

The  word  Sorcerers  there  is  pharmacists.  The  Greek  word 
pharmakoi(<t>a.piJua.Kol},  means  the  makers,  sellers  and  vendors  of 
deadly  poisons;  sorcerers,  murderers. 

The  word  of  God  says: 

I  will  be  a  Swift  Witness  against  the  Sorcerer. 

We  do  now  witness  for  God  against  the  poisoner. 

In  this  sin-cursed  city  there  is  no  place  which  is  cursed 
more  than  the  druggist's  shop. 

In  the  drug  store  you  can  get  every  kind  of  poison  and 
every  kind  of  dirt  and  deviltry. 

Zion  fights  the  Sorcerer.  What  is  it  that  Zion  does  not 
fight?  you  say.  You  show  us  something  which  Zion  is  not 
fighting  which  is  wrong,  and  if  it  lifts  its  head,  we  will  take  a 
stroke  at  it. 

Zion  will  take  a  stroke  at  everything  evil. 

The  Wrath  of  God  is  revealed  from  heaven  against  all 
unrighteousness. 

Zion  has  a  pretty  big  contract  on  hand. 

ZION    HAS    TO    FIGHT   THE  PRESS. 

Of  all  the  dirty  things  upon  God  Almighty's  earth,  the 
newspaper  press  is  one  of  the  filthiest.  (Laughter.)  The  only 
thing  that  can  be  done  with  it  is  to  let  it  lie  on.  It  is  no  use 
attempting  to  answer  the  liars.  They  multiply  like  the  lice  in 
Egypt.  (Laughter.)  You  filthy  fellows!  You  scoundrels  who 
lie!  You  fellows  who  go  about  and  smoke  and  drink  and 
stink,  and  do  everything  but  think  and  tell  the  truth. 

Do  you  think  we  are  afraid  of  you?  Do  you  think  we  are 
afraid  of  your  infernal  lying?  Are  we  afraid  of  the  whole  of 
you  put  together?  Thank  God,  Zion  is  not  afraid  of  all  the 
hosts  of  hell  in  Chicago. 

I  mean  to  have  a  good  hard  hit  at  the  Press  in  this  Three 
Months'  Holy  War.  I  mean  to  show  its  "record."  I  mean  to 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  37 

show  its  "daily  news."  I  mean  to  show  it  in  the  "tribune"  of 
truth.  I  mean  to  show  it,  not  only  in  the  "inter  ocean,"  but 
from  ocean  to  ocean. 

What  I  say  will  live,  and  what  these  wretches  say  will  die. 

Truth  will  live,  for  truth  is  of  God.  We  have  no  fear  of 
you  with  all  the  hosts  of  hell  behind  you,  for  the  lie  must  die. 

Zion  is  therefore  going  to  proclaim  that  Jesus  Christ  is  the 
same  Saviour,  Healer,  Cleanser  and  Keeper. 

If  any  man  says  otherwise,  then  let  him  be  Anathema. 
Maranatha!  The  Lord  has  come!  It  is  time  to  hurl  out  the 
Anathema  to  those  who  lie,  and  say  that  Jesus  Christ  is  not  the 
same. 

Zion  is  therefore  bringing  Peace  when  there  is  uncondi- 
tional surrender  to  God.  Being  justified  by  faith,  we  have 
peace  with  God,  for  God  has  taken  away  our  sins.  Being 
justified  by  faith,  we  have  healing  from  God,  for  God  takes 
away  our  diseases.  Being  justified  by  faith,  we  have  cleansing- 
from  God,  for  God  takes  away  uncleanness.  We  can  now 
walk  in  the  light  of  Salvation  and  Healing  and  Holiness,  if  we 
will  do  what  God  tells  us. 

THE    COWARD    LEADS   THE    PROCESSION    TO    HELL. 

If  you  are  a  coward,  you  will  go  to  hell  quicker  than  any- 
body else.  No  one  will  go  quicker  to  hell  than  you.  No 
Methodist  will  go  quicker  to  hell  than  you.  No  Roman  Cath- 
olic will  go  quicker  to  hell  than  you.  No  Presbyterian  will  go 
quicker  to  hell  than  you,  if  you  are  a  coward. 

That  passage  says  that  the  fearful  and  the  unbelieving  lead 
the  procession  to  hell.  Oh  may  God  grant  unto  us  a  Divine 
courage.  (Amen.)  My  brothers  and  sisters,  time  would  fail 
me  to  tell  all  my  Message.  I  have  told  a  little  of  it.  May 
God  help  me  to  tell  the  whole  before  I  pass  away.  (Amen.) 

I  have  no  fight  with  my  fellowmen,  unless  they  have  a  fight 
with  the  Kingdom  of  God. 

If  you  are  rebels,  I  will  pound  you,  I  will  fire  into  you,  I 
will  strike  you,  I  will  starve  you,  and  I  will  run  you  down  until 
you  surrender. 

"Oh,  Doctor,  that  is  not  like  the  Gospel." 

You  say  that  because  you  do  not  know  the  Gospel. 

I  came  not  to  send  peace  on  earth,  but  a  Sword. 

A    DIFFICULTY    IN    A    FAMILY    WHICH    WAS    THE    FORERUNNER    OF  A 
GREAT    BLESSING. 

"But,  Doctor,  your  doctrine  makes  difficulties  in  families/' 

I  know  it  does.     Sometimes  it  separates  a  man  and  his  wife. 

A    man   said    the  other  day,  "I  came  out  of   the  Roman 

Catholic  Church.     I  am  married  to  a  Roman  Catholic  wife,  ami 

she  said,  '  If  you  go  to  Dr.  Dowie's,  I  will  break  your  head.'  " 

That  was  a  genteel  lady,  you  know.     (Laughter.) 


38  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

He  went  to  Dowie's  and  got  salvation.  He  was  sick  and  he 
got  healing,  and  she  saw  he  got  healing,  for  he  was  able  to  do 
twice  as  much  work  as  before.  She  said,  "That  is  all  right.  I 
am  glad  you  got  healing,  but  don't  you  go  any  more  (laughter), 
for  if  you  go  any  more,  you  will  be  sure  to  become  a  Dowieite, 
and  a  Zionite;  become  a  member  of  the  Christian  Catholic 
Church.  If  you  do,  I  will  break  your  neck." 

One  night  he  said  to  her,  "Biddy,  I  am  going  to  be  bap- 
tized tonight,  and  I  love  you  so." 

She  slapped  his  face  and  told  him  he  had  better  not. 

That  night  he  was  baptized,  and  when  he  went  home  he 
went  gently  in.  As  he  did  so  he  received  a  tremendous  blow 
on  the  back  of  his  head  from  a  rolling  pin,  which  knocked  him 
insensible.  He  received  other  blows  upon  his  body  which 
awoke  him,  and  in  the  dim  light  he  could  see  that  it  was  Biddy. 
She  had  literally  broken  his  head.  The  blood  was  running  all 
over  him. 

He  arose  and  put  his  arms  around  her  and  said,  "Biddy,  I 
love  you.  A  week  ago  I  would  have  killed  you  for  this." 

She  threw  him  from  her  and  ran  away. 

He  went  to  a  neighbor's,  where  his  wounds  were  tied  up. 
Then  he  came  over  to  see  me,  and  told  me  his  story.  I  said, 
"  Now  go  back  to  Biddy  and  treat  her  very  kindly.  Do  not 
enter  any  action  against  her.  Do  not  arrest  her,  and  tell  her 
that  we  will  stand  by  her,  and  that  we  will  pray  for  her." 

He  went  back  that  afternoon,  but  there  was  no  Biddy  there. 
She  had  gone  with  every  stick  of  furniture  that  the  poor  work- 
man had  in  the  world.  I  said,  "  Go  on  with  your  work,  and  pray." 

He  trusted  God  for  his  body,  and  within  a  day  or  so  he  was 
at  his  work  again.  He  went  on  working. 

One  day  he  came  home  from  his  work,  and  behold  he 
found  Biddy  and  all  the  furniture  there. 

She  said,  "O  Billy,  I  have  been  so  unhappy  every  moment 
since  I  struck  you.  I  have  not  had  a  moment's  peace.  I  have 
come  back  to  do  right.  You  can  go  where  you  like,  and  I  will 
go  with  you."  (Laughter.)  Biddy  is  in  this  house  today, 
thank  God.  (Amen.  Applause.) 

She  broke  his  head,  but  in  that  blow  God  broke  her  heart. 

Zion  divides  and  yet  unites. 

Zion  destroys  and  yet  revives. 

Beloved  friends,  after  all  the  fierce  things  I  have  said, 
understand  me  that 

ZION    HAS   NO    HATRED,    EXCEPT   A   HATRED    FOR    SIN. 

That  we  hate  with  all  our  hearts. 

We  shall  go  on  telling  people  the  Everlasting  Gospel. 
There  are  good  people  in  all  the  churches.     I  have  had  the 
joy  of  baptizing  nearly  two  thousand  persons  who  have  been 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  39 

Roman  Catholics.  I  have  had  the  joy  of  baptizing  thousands 
who  have  been  Presbyterians,  Congregationalists,  and  Baptists, 
and  they  were  good  Christian  people. 

Here  is  my  Brother  Mason  from  China.  He  was  a  mis- 
sionary for  nearly  twenty  years  in  China.  LEAVES  OF  HEALING 
reached  him  there  and  brought  him  to  Zion.  I  have  had  the 
joy  of  baptizing  him. 

Here  is  another  brother  who  came  out  of  the  miserable 
Dunkards.  Here  is  a  miserable  Methodist;  I  won  him.  tHere 
is  another  Presbyterian,  and  I  won  her.  Here  is  a  Congre- 
gationalist,  and  I  won  him.  And  here  is  a  Disciple,  and  I  won 
him.  Here  is  a  Baptist,  and  I  won  him.  Here  is  a  Presby- 
terian, and  I  won  him.  Here  is  a  Reformed  Episcopalian,  and 
God  reformed  him  still  more.  (Laughter.)  Here  is  a  Meth- 
odist, and  I  won  him.  Here  is  a  Presbyterian,  and  I  won  him. 

There  are  good  people  where  you  came  from.  There  are 
more  fish  in  the  sea  than  we  ever  took  out  of  it. 

Now  let  us  go  into  the  sea,  and  let  us  fish  for  souls,  and  let 
us  take  nice  bait  for  souis,  and  when  we  come  along  to  a  minis- 
terial "wabagong,"  let  us  go  for  it.  A  wabagong  is  a  ground 
shark  which  eats  up  the  fish.  The  wabagong  is  four-fifths 
head  and  mouth,  and  the  rest  tail.  (Laughter.) 

Ugh !  That  wabagong.  May  God  help  us  to  kill  the  waba- 
gong and  become  more  and  more  successful  fishers  of  men. 

CALL. 

Now,  every  one  in  this  meeting  who  wants  to  be  wholly 
God's,  stand.  Let  all  who  want  to  follow  God,  spirit,  soul  and 
body,  stand  to  their  feet. 

PRAYER    OF   CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I  am. 
Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  in  spirit,  soul  and  body.  Give  me  power  to 
do  right,  no  matter  what  it  costs.  Give  me  thy  Holy  Spirit,  that  I  may  trust 
Thee,  and  love  Thee,  and  serve  Thee,  and  be  a  blessing  to  my  fellowman, 
for  Jesus'  sake.  Amen.  (All  repeat  the  prayer,  clause  by  clause,  after  Dr. 
Dowie.) 

The  meeting  was  then  closed  by  the  following 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil,  and  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 
Grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  Love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you, bless 
you  and  keep  you  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 


A  REPLY  TO  THE  ATTACK  OF  REV.  FRANK  DE  WITT 

TALMAGE. 


ON  the  second  Lord's  Day  of  the  Three  Months' Holy  War, 
October  8,  1899,  Zion  in  Chicago  had  a  Glorious  Victory 
all  along  the  line.  In  the  morning  the  General  Overseer  opened 
the  new  West  Side  Zion  Tabernacle  at  the  corner  of  West  Mad- 
ison and  Paulina  Streets,  and  in  the  evening  the  new  North  Side 
Zion  Tabernacle  at  the  corner  of  Lincoln  and  Belden  Avenues. 
At  both  services  there  were  audiences  which  taxed  to  their 
utmost  the  seating  capacities  of  these  large  public  halls.  The 
interest  manifested  was  intense  and  augured  splendid  results. 

In  the  afternoon,  at  Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  the  General 
Overseer  turned  his  attention  and  that  of  his  great  audience, 
for  a  few  moments,  to  the  ridiculously  false  and  shametully 
wicked  attack  of  the  Rev.  Frank  De  Witt  Talmage. 

This  very  unwise  young  man  had,  by  his  own  words,  digged 
his  ecclesiastical  grave,  and  it  required  but  a  few  masterly 
strokes  by  the  General  Overseer  to  send  him  and  his  silly 
attack  into  it  and  bury  them  under  the  contempt  of  honest, 
thinking  people. 

The  man  of  God  then  quickly  proved,  by  God's  Word,  the 
utter  defenselessness  of  the  position  taken  in  the  matter  of 
Divine  Healing,  by  the  Rev.  Dwight  L.  Moody,  during  his 
recent  visit  to  Chicago. 


The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing  Hymn  No.  195.  The 
Scripture  lesson  was  read  from  the  fourteenth  chapter  of  Rev- 
elation. Prayer  was  then  offered  by  Dr.  Dowie,  after  which  he 
made  reference  to  the  opening  of  the  West  Side  and  North  Side 
Zion  Tabernacles. 

The  announcements  were  then  made. 


TALMAGE  JUNIOR  LIES. 

The  following  prelude  was  delivered  by  Dr.  Dowie: 

I  will  say  a  few  words  concerning  the  contemptible  attack 

of  that  windbag,  Frank  Talmage.     (Laughter.) 

I  have  entitled  my  few  remarks,  "Talmage  Junior  Lies."    I 

think  when  we  are  through  we  will  write  the  inscription  on  the 


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tombstone  over  his  ecclesiastical  grave — "  Here  Lies  Talmage 
Junior,  Who  Lied." 

I  am  perfectly  sure  that  the  effect  of  his  foolish  utterances 
will  be  simply  to  bury  him  beneath  the  contempt  of  every 
honest,  thinking  man.  (Applause.) 

TALMAGE   JUNIOR    IS   ALMOST   TOO   SMALL   TO    NOTICE. 

I  am  feeling  a  little  sorry  that  I  have  to  touch  him,  because 
the  creature  is  not  in  my  class,  as  the  pugilist  would  say.  He 
is  too  small.  But,  for  the  sake  of  those  who  do  not  know,  I 
may  be  permitted  to  speak  of  this  man,  whom  even  the  Chi- 
cago Chronicle  calls  "A  clerical  barbarian." 

Is  there  one  in  Zion  who  thinks  I  need  to  answer  him? 

Audience—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — I  take  the  report  of  Mr.  Talmage's  sermon  as 
printed  in  the  Inter  Ocean.  He  has  declared  that  to  be  official, 
although  the  sermon  he  preached  was  somewhat  different. 

In  his  talk  Mr.  Talmage  speaks  of  the  many  charlatans  in 
Chicago,  and  is  kind  enough  to  say  that  I  am  chief  "Among 
the  royal  family  of  Scapins."  I  do  not  know  whether  you 
know  who  Scapin  was  unless  you  are  familiar  with  Moliere, 
the  writer  of  a  set  of  vile  French  plays.  The  reference  here  is 
to  a  man  of  the  most  degraded  character,  who  brought  about, 
in  the  midst  of  a  great  deal  of  vice,  the  marriage  of  four 
people  under  shameful  circumstances. 

I  want  to  know  what  I  have  done  that  I  should  be  put  in  the 
category  with  that  dirty  fellow  out  of  Moliere.  It  is  a  dis- 
gusting and  disgraceful  simile,  and  has  no  rightful  application 
to  me. 

However,  he  says: 

Amid  the  royal  family  of  Scapins  we  find  the  very  king  himself,  John 
Alexander  Dowie,  the  most  monumental  fraud  of  the  latter  part  of  the 
Nineteenth  Century;  the  imposter  whom  all  the  newspapers  are  against — 

Did  you  ever  read,  you  miserable  man,  the  question  which 
was  once  put  when  Jesus  was  on  earth: 

Have  any  of  the  rulers  believed  on  Him? 

Was  there  a  single  scribe  in  Jerusalem  who  wrote  in  His 
favor? 

Audience — "  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — I  am  in  excellent  company.     (Applause.) 

EMPTINESS   OF   NEWSPAPER    OPPOSITION    IN    CHICAGO. 

Everybody  in  Chicago  knows  that  the  way  for  a  man  to 
win  a  big  fight  in  Chicago  is  to  have  all  the  newspapers  on  the 
other  side.  (Laughter.  Applause.) 

That  has  been  proved  again  and  again. 

Harrison,  Sr.,  and  Harrison,  Jr.,  are  both  illustrations  of  it. 
The  people  take  no  stock  in  the  newspapers.  I  often  think 
that  the  Devil  owns  them  all.  (Laughter.) 


42  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

— the  imposter  whom  aJ  the  newspapers  are  against,  all  decent  people  are 
against,  all  honesty  and  purity  and  truth  are  against,  yet  who,  as  a  blood- 
thirsty vampire,  has  fastened  himself  upon  this  municipal  body,  and 
intends  to  stay,  against  all  protests,  until  he  has  sucked  his  fill. 

Is  that  not  a  disgraceful  characterization? 

Audience— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — He  says  that  I  attacked  Dr.  Henson;  I  attacked 
Bishop  Fowler;  I  attacked  the  great  editor  of  the  Chicago 
Interior,  Dr.  Gray,  and  I  attacked  Dwight  L.  Moody. 

He  knows  that  he  lies  when  he  says  that.  He  knows  per- 
fectly well  that  I  never  attacked  any  one  of  these  persons. 
Did  they  not  each  and  all  attack  me  first? 

Audience— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — I  simply  replied  to  attacks,  and,  of  course,  when 
I  did  so,  I  spanked  them  properly.  If  they  were  hurt  in  the 
fight,  they  have  no  right  to  complain,  have  they? 

Audience— "No." 

Dr.  Dowie — I  was  defending  not  merely  myself,  but  Zion. 
I  was  defending  the  doctrine  which  God  has  committed  to  me. 
If  I  had  not  done  it,  I  should  have  been  a  coward  and  a 
recreant. 

Who  was  to  defend  Divine  Healing  if  I  did  not? 

I  simply  stood  on  the  defensive,  and  waited  patiently. 
After  they  had  repeatedly  attacked  Zion  I  went  out  and  I— 
well,  we  had  a  first-class  funeral  at  the  end  of  it.  (Laughter.) 

They  are  buried.  So  far  as  their  attack  is  concerned  they 
are  all  settled. 

When  we  are  through  with  Talmage  he  will  be  settled  too. 
(Applause.) 

He  says :  "  I  am  not  afraid  of  Dowie."  His  remark  reminds 
me  of  a  boy  whistling  to  keep  his  courage  up. 

TALMAGE'S  STILETTO  TURNS  OUT  TO  BE  A  WINDBAG. 

When  I  read  the  next  thing,  I  laughed.  I  have  had  lots  of 
fun  out  of  this.  It  is  too  ridiculous,  almost,  to  treat  seriously. 

He  says  that  he  is  going  to  take  my  verbal  stiletto  in  his 
hands — that  stiletto  which  I  have  recklessly  wielded  amongst 
his  brother  ministers — and  drive  it  into  my  own  sacred  body 
clear  up  the  hilt! 

I  waited  to  see  where  the  stiletto  came  in,  and  found  it  was 
only  a  bladder  full  of  wind.  (Laughter.) 

I  have  not  met  the  stiletto  yet.  He  does  not  know  a  stil- 
etto from  a  windbag.  (Laughter  and  applause.) 

He  says  he  is  not  afraid  to  enter  this  controversy  even 
though  "My  holy  brother  does  spell  the  name  Dowie  with  a 
big  '  D '  and  God  with  a  little  '  g.'  " 

Is  there  a  word  of  truth  in  that?  Have  I  ever  treated  the 
sacred  Name  of  God  other  than  reverently? 

Audience—"  No." 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  43 

Dr.  Bowie — He  knows  it.     That  is  one  of  his  impudent  lies. 
Again  he  says: 

In  the  first  place,  I  brand  the  imposter  of  Zion's  Tabernacle  as  the  most 
dangerous  of  Satanic  hypnotists. 

HYPNOTISM    COMES    FROM   A   GREEK   WORD    MEANING    SLEEP. 

I  wonder  if  he  knows  the  meaning  of  the  word  hypnotist. 
I  wonder  if  he  has  Greek  enough  to  know  that  hypnos  (VTTVOS) 
means  sleep. 

Did  I  ever  send  you  who  have  sat  under  my  ministry  long, 
to  sleep? 

Voices — "No."     (Laughter  and  applause.) 

Dr.  Dowie — You  seem  wide  awake  now.  (Laughter.)  I 
have  done  my  best  to  keep  you  wide  awake,  and  I  have  suc- 
ceeded, I  think,  tolerably  well.  I  know  very  well  that  I  can 
get  any  Methodist,  Baptist  or  Mah-hah-bone  awake  in  about  a 
minute.  (Laughter.)  You  have  only  to  stir  up  the  stinking 
bones  of  the  bogus  Hiram  of  Tyre,  the  Son  of  the  Widow, 
whose  mythical  murder  is  reenacted  in  the  Masonic  Lodge- 
room  every  night. 

If  Mr.  Frank  Talmage  knows  anything  about  hypnotism,  he 
knows  that  hypnotism  means  that  a  man  exercises  all  his  power 
to  get  another  to  sleep.  Then  when  he  is  asleep  he  can  do 
anything  with  him.  He  knows  he  lies  when  he  talks  of  me  as 
a  hypnotist. 

It  is  a  very  serious  matter  when  a  minister  of  Christ,  or  one 
who  professes  to  be  one,  insults  a  Christian  brother  by  saying 
that  he  is  a  personification  of  Satan  himself.  He  says: 

The  great  mistake  of  Bowie's  enemies  is  this:  They  have  never  recog- 
nized this  devil's  power.  They  sneer  at  him,  treat  him  as  an  upstart,  an 
irritating  gadfly,  a  harmless  pretender,  whose  absurd  pretentons  will  soon 
wear  out.  I  tell  you  that  John  Alexander  Dowie  has  power.  The  power  a 
poisonous  snake  has  over  a  little  helpless  bird.  He  fixes  that  evil  eye  upon 
a  person  who  can  be  victimized  and  he  never  lets  up.  He  ^  gathers  these 
bewitched  and  helpless  dupes  into  Zion's  Home  and  Zion's  schools  and 
Zion's  Bank  and  Zion's  Tabernacle.  He  buries  them  under  snowbanks  of 
Divine  Healing  literature.  They  give  to  him  far  more  than  money.  They 
surrender  to  him  their  honor  and  their  life. 

What  does  that  mean,  you  scoundrel?  Who  has  ever  sur- 
rendered to  me  their  honor,  you  dirty  dog?  My  hands  are 
clean.  My  heart  is  clean.  My  life  is  clean. 

Have  I  asked  any  woman  or  man  to  surrender  their  honor 
or  their  life? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — You  dirty  dog!  The  man  is  not  born  who  can 
truthfully  say  that  I  ever  spoke  or  acted  in  my  ministry  a  sin- 
gle word  or  act  of  impurity  to  a  woman  yet,  and  women  have 
trusted  me  in  tens  and  hundreds  of  thousands.  I  have  laid 
my  hands  upon  them  and  God  has  healed  them.  (Amen. 
Applause.) 


44  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

You  disgraceful  dog!  How  dare  you  tell  such  lies,  and 
utter  such  vile  insinuations? 

He  says  I  am  a  devil  and  not  a  minister  of  God. 

TWO   THOUSAND   TESTIFY  THAT   DR.  DOWIE's   MINISTRY   IS  OF  GOD. 

In  the  Name  of  the  Lord  Jesus,  every  one  in  this  house 
who  has  been  spiritually  and  physically  blessed  through  my 
means,  stand  to  your  feet.  (About  two  thousand  arose.) 

I  ask  you  all,  have  I  been  used  to  you  spiritually  and  phys- 
ically? 

Witnesses— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  I  make  any  bargain  with  you  or  ask  you 
for  money? 

Witnesses—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Were  you  treated  all  alike? 

Witnesses— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Have  I  ever  asked  you  to  come  to  me  by  any 
promises  that  I  would  do  this  or  that  for  you? 

Witnesses— "No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  I  heal  you? 

Witnesses—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Who  healed  you? 

Witnesses— "God." 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  I  in  any  way  endeavor  to  bring  your  minds 
under  subjection  to  myself,  or  did  I  ask  you  to  be  subject  to 
God? 

Witnesses— "To  God." 

Dr.  Dowie — Have  you  been  free  to  come  and  go  as  you 
please? 

Witnesses— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — What  you  have  given  to  this  Church  you  have 
given  freely,  have  you  not? 

Witnesses— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Are  you  content  with  my  stewardship? 

Witnesses— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Then  why  does  this  scoundrel  insinuate  that  I 
am  a  thief?  Have  I  stolen  anything  belonging  to  you? 

Witnesses—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — I  have  given  money,  time,  talent,  toil.  I  have 
poured  out  my  life  like  water,  and  I  am  glad  I  have.  (Amen.) 

When  our  Lord  Jesus  was  here  on  earth  He  said  that  the 
sin  against  the  Holy  Ghost  was  that  they  said  that  He  had  an 
unclean  devil,  and  that  He  did  these  works  through  Beelzebub, 
the  prince  of  devils. 

Now,  if  our  Master  was  so  careful  to  defend  His  own  min- 
istry as  to  say  that  those  who  said  that  the  work  of  God 
through  Him  was  the  work  of  an  unclean  devil  had  sinned 
against  the  Holy  Ghost,  He  will  defend  His  ministry  still,  by 


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45 


pronouncing  the  doom  of  such  blasphemers.  Was  my  work  the 
work  of  the  Devil  or  of  God? 

Audience— "God." 

Dr.  Dowie — God  knows  that  I  have  kept  my  heart,  by  His 
grace,  pure  before  Him,  and  that  I  have  prayed  and  toiled  and 
lived  and  loved  and  served. 

I  warn  this  miserable  fellow  that 

HE  IS  PERILOUSLY  NEAR    COMMITTING  THE  SIN  AGAINST  THE  HOLY 

GHOST 

by  attributing  the  work  of  God  to  Satan.  He  will  have  to 
answer  for  that  before  the  judgment  seat  of  God.  and  if  he 
does  not  repent,  he  will  be  damned. 

He  made  a  cry  about  demanding  that  the  mayor  and  the 
police  step  in  and  break  up  this  unlicensed  infamy  and  com- 
mand the  arch-instigator  to  stop  in  the  name  of  the  law. 

Why  didn't  the  mayor  obey  him?  It  was  like  his  impu- 
dence to  tell  the  mayor  what  he  had  to  do. 

Zion  stands  open  to  all  without  any  fear.  These  doors  are 
open.  The  Divine  Healing  Home  is  open  to  every  Christian. 

That  scoundrel  who  impersonated  a  Christian,  and  was 
sent  by  the  Daily  News  as  a  spy  to  Zion,  had  no  difficulty  in 
getting  in  when  he  said  that  he  was  a  sick  lumberman  from 
Wisconsin  and  was  seeking  the  Lord  for  healing.  He  saw 
everything  that  any  guest  can  see,  and  when  he  got  through 
could  say  nothing  against  us. 

Why  did  this  dirty,  little,  low  scoundrel,  this  low  black- 
guard in  the  Jefferson  Park  Presbyterian  Church,  have  the 
audacity  to  say  that  Zion  was  a  place  that  the  police  ought  to 
break  up?  It  was  like  his  impudence. 

If  we  have  broken  the  law,  we  are  ready  to  be  indicted. 
We  have  defended  ourselves  against  every  attack,  and  I  think 
it  is  recorded  on  the  pages  of  the  city's  history  that  we  came 
out  on  top  every  time.  (Amen.  Applause.) 

Of  course  the  mayor  and  the  police  treated  Talmage  with 
the  contempt  he  merited. 

TALMAGE    HANGS    A    LARGE    PART    OF    HIS    ATTACK    UPON    MY 
WEARING    GLASSES. 

He  read  from  a  pamphlet  which  was  written  in  1888,  eleven 
years  ago. 

If  a  man  cannot  learn  something  in  eleven  years,  he  is  a 
very  big  fool. 

I  am  not  prepared  to  say  that  I  am  going  to  say  again 
today  every  word  I  said  eleven  years  ago. 

A  man  once  rose  up  in  the  British  House  of  Commons 
and  challenged  the  Right  Honorable  William  Ewart  Gladstone 
with  being  inconsistent,  and  quoted  from  a  speech  of  his  that 


4$  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

had  been  delivered  a  number  of  years  before.  Mr.  Gladstone 
was  then  premier.  He  arose  in  the  House  and  said:  "I  admit 
that  I  said,  and  I  admit  that  I  wrote,  what  the  honorable  gen- 
tleman on  the  other  side  has  read.  I  say  boldly  that  I  have 
changed  my  opinion,  and  a  man  who  can  live  so  many  years 
and  never  learn  anything  is  a  fool." 

I  have  not  much  to  take  back  in  all  my  teaching,  but  a 
man  who  has  spoken  for  a  great  many  years,  and  has  been 
treading  in  unfamiliar  fields  and  blazing  out  a  track,  might  be 
forgiven  if  he  did  not  make  a  perfectly  straight  path  the  first 
time.  It  has  been  a  somewhat  hard  task  for  me  to  undertake 
to  find  the  old  path,  which  has  been  unused  for  nearly  nineteen 
centuries. 

If,  sometimes,  I  have  given  the  path  a  slight  curve  or  two, 
is  it  to  be  wondered  at? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — I  do  not  say  that  I  am  infallible.  I  leave  that 
to  the  Pope  and  Talmage  Junior.  (Laughter  and  Applause.) 

All  that  I  said,  from  which  he  quoted,  is  true,  and  I  do  not 
take  back  a  word  of  it. 

I  WAS  SPEAKING  REGARDING  PERSONS  WHO  HAD  DISEASE  IN  THEIR 

EYES. 

They  had  been  healed,  and  had  handed  in  a  great  many 
spectacles,  and  I  said  a  few  words  about  it.  He  goes  away  and 
gets  a  picture  which  has  recently  been  published  in  one  of  the 
daily  papers  of  Chicago,  the  Record.  It  represented  myself 
and  Mrs.  Dowie  and  my  son  and  my  daughter  wearing  specta- 
cles. If  we  did  wear  spectacles,  that  was  not  a  mortal  sin, 
was  it? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — There  is  the  true  picture  of  myself  and  family. 
You  will  find  it  as  a  frontispiece  to  Number  I  of  Volume  I  of 
LEAVES  OF  HEALING,  published  on  August  31,  1894.  Mr.  Tal- 
mage held  up  this  picture,  and  said: 

Look  at  it.  Dr.  Dowie  has  on  spectacles;  Mrs.  Dowie  has,  Miss  Dowie 
has,  and  Master  Dowie  has. 

I  will  ask  you  to  look  at  the  picture,  not  as  it  appeared  in 
the  Record,  but  as  it  appeared  in  1894,  when  not  one  of  us  wore 
spectacles. 

And  now  there  is  the  picture  which  Talmage  Junior  exhib- 
ited with  spectacles  upon  every  one  of  us,  and  large  spectacles 
at  that.  Who  put  the  spectacles  there?  The  Daily  Recorder 
of  Lies.  (Applause.) 

See,  you  men  who  belong  to  the  daily  press.  (Dr.  Dowie 
hands  the  volume  to  two  representatives  of  the  press  present.) 

Now,  that  was  a  neat  little  trick  of  the  Record. 

Mr.  Talmage  says,  "Behold  the  spectacled  family." 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  47 

I  do  not  desire  to  say  anything  I  ought  not  to  say  about 
this  matter. 

First  of  all,  the  remarks  which  he  has  quoted  I  spoke 
eleven  years  ago.  The  picture  he  has  presented  as  evidence 
was  printed  in  1894,  over  five  years  ago,  and  at  that  time  there 
was  not  a  single  spectacle  on  any  of  us. 

I  am  glad  to  have  this  opportunity  to  tell  you  that 

MY    EYES    ARE    AS    SHARP,    CLEAR,    STRONG    AND    WELL    TODAY    AS 
EVER  THEY  WERE. 

There  is  no  disease  in  them.  I  have  learned  as  the  years 
have  gone  on  something  which  I  could  not  know  except  by 
experience.  When  a  man  who  has  worked  with  his  eyes  as 
much  as  I  have  reaches  a  certain  age,  the  lens  flattens,  and  he 
begins  to  get  a  little  difficulty  in  looking  at  the  very  smallest 
type.  There  is  a  strain,  and  presently  there  is  a  little  depres- 
sion; a  concavity  where  there  was  a  convexity  in  his  youth. 
The  consequence  is  that,  while  there  is  no  disease  in  either 
eye,  there  is  an  alteration  in  its  structural  formation,  which,  if 
he  is  to  read  very  small  type,  requires  that  he  shall  have  a 
correction  in  the  way  of  a  convex  glass,  which  will  give  to  his 
eye  the  proper  convexity.  That  is  not  disease. 

Because  I  wear,  as  I  do,  a  very  low-power  glass,  am  I  to  be 
branded  as  a  thief  and  a  fraud?  I  have  not  done  it  secretly. 
I  have  done  it  openly. 

There  have  been  a  number  of  things  altered  since  I  came 
to  this  country.  When  I  came  to  this  country  in  1888,  like  the 
song,  "John  Anderson,  My  Jo,"  my  "locks  were  like  the 
raven." 

If  I  have  gray  hairs  now,  I  believe  it  is  these  wretched  min- 
isters and  newspaper  men  that  have  brought  them.  (Laughter 
and  applause).  I  have  had  a  continuous  fight  with  them.  Yet 
they  will  admit  that  I  have  whipped  them  every  time.  (Ap- 
plause.) We  will  whip  them  again. 

Mr.  Talmage  is  at  perfect  liberty  to  make  all  he  can  out  of 
the  fact  that  what  I  wrote  in  1888  I  have  modified  in  1899.  I 
am  not  taking  back  one  word  of  what  I  have  said :  for,  thanks 
be  to  God,  many  who  were  blind  have  received  their  sight 
while  I  have  been  wearing  these  glasses;  many  who  have  had 
diseased  eyes  have  received  healing,  and  many  thousands  have 
been  healed  while  I  have  been  wearing  these  glasses.  If  Frank 
Talmage  is  not  pleased,  God  Almighty  is,  and  that  pleases  me, 
(Applause.  Amen.) 

He  says  he  has  a  letter  from  Dr.  L.  C.  H.  E.  Zeigler.  I 
would  just  as  soon  think  of  soiling  my  hands  with  a  skunk  in 
the  woods  as  with  this  man  Zeigler.  He  knows  nothing  of 
Zion,  and  his  statements  as  to  our  using  sulphur  or  drugs  of 
any  kind  are  absolutely  false.  He  has  never  had  any  connec- 


48  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

tion  with  Zion,  except  that  he  was  once  engaged  by  me  as  a 
stenographer  to  report  one  of  my  Sunday  lectures  at  the 
Auditorium  in  1894.  He  failed  to  get  the  report  and  never 
came  near  me  to  tell  me  why  he  failed.  I  have  never  seen 
him  since.  But  he  is  well  known. 

He  then  says  something  of  R.  A.  Studd.  Has  that  not  all 
been  made  clear  to  Zion  in  LEAVES  OF  HEALING  for  September 
2,  1899,  pages  878-880? 

Audience — "  Yes." 

TALMAGE'S  LIE  CONCERNING  PAUPERISM  OF  DR.  DOWIE  WHEN  HE 

CAME  TO  AMERICA. 

Dr.  Dowie — He  attempts  to  make  it  appear  that  I  came  to 
this  country  as  a  pauper.  "A  poor,  wandering  adventurer 
landed  in  this  country  a  very  few  years  ago.  He  had  not  one 
cent.  His  very  railroad  fare  was  paid  to  this  city  by  the  Black 
sisters  of  Rockford,  Illinois,"  and  so  on. 

I  brand  that  as  an  infamous  lie  made  out  of  whole  cloth. 

You  have  seen  upon  this  platform  men  from  Australia  who 
have  known  me  well-nigh  all  my  life  there.  Did  they  speak  of 
me  as  a  pauper  or  an  adventurer? 

Audience—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — I  was  born  in  Edinburgh,  Scotland.  I  went  out 
to  Australia  with  my  father  in  1860.  I  won  the  "Dux"  silver 
medal  of  my  academy,  I  had  won  it  fairly  before  I  was  four- 
teen years  old,  and  there  was  no  better  school  there  than  the 
one  I  had  left.  I  went  into  business  and  made  money  rapidly. 
I  understood  business,  and  understand  business  still,  thank 
God.  (Amen.)  I  arose  until  I  was  the  resident  partner's  con- 
fidential clerk  in  a  firm  doing  several  millions  of  dollars'  worth 
of  business  a  year.  I  then  secured  an  interest  in  a  large  hard- 
ware business,  and  was  very  successful.  I  helped  to  develop 
that  business,  so  that  we  did  a  great  deal  of  contracting  for 
government  and  railway  supplies. 

Though  I  had  known  nothing  of  water  or  gas,  we  supplied 
hundreds  of  miles  of  pipes,  and  lit  large  numbers  of  houses; 
and  once  when  the  gas  supply  failed  we  lit  up  the  whole  city 
with  kerosene. 

I     GAVE    UP     A     SUCCESSFUL     BUSINESS     CAREER     TO     BECOME     A 

MINISTER. 

I  consecrated  the  money  and  the  talent  which  God  had 
given  to  me  to  His  service.  I  did  not  give  God  that  which  cost 
me  nothing. 

I  had  money  enough  to  carry  me  to  the  old  country;  to 
study  in  Edinburgh  University;  to  bring  me  back,  and  to  enter 
the  ministry.  I  received  salary  enough  to  maintain  me. 

Within  two  years  of  my  entering  the  ministry  I  was  pastor 
of  one  of  the  largest  churches  of  Australia,  the  Newtown  Con- 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  49 

gregational  Church,  collegiate  charge  of  the  Congregational 
Body.  Camden  College  was  under  my  ministry. 

I  took  a  large  part  in  public  affairs,  as  I  always  had  done, 
and  was  offered,  by  the  late  Sir  Henry  Parkes,  Premier  of  the 
Government  of  New  South  Wales,  the  portfolio  of  Minister  for 
Education,  if  I  would  stand  for  a  certain  constituency.  There 
was  no  doubt  whatever  I  could  have  won  the  seat,  but  I  never 
cared  for  office.  My  interest  in  politics  was  simply  in  the 
matter  of  social  reform.  That  I  studied  and  worked  at. 

I  was  powerful  enough  once  to  say  to  a  premier  in  the 
executive  Council  Chamber,  "If  you  do  not  do  what  we  tell 
you,  you  will  be  out  of  office  within  a  week."  He  laughed  and 
said,  "It  cannot  be  done." 

Within  a  week  he  was  out  of  office.  One  of  his  most  trusted 
ministers  crossed  the  floor  of  the  House  and  moved  a  motion 
of  no  confidence  in  that  government.  We  backed  him  up,  and 
he  went  in  and  continued  in  power  for  three  years.  He  helped 
us  to  close  every  saloon  throughout  the  whole  colony  on  the 
Sabbath  Day.  (Applause.) 

DR.  BOWIE'S   UNDENOMINATIONAL    MINISTRY   IN   AUSTRALIA. 

After  I  withdrew  from  the  Congregational  Body  I  built  a 
large  Tabernacle  in  Melbourne.  I  had  enormous  crowds  and 
several  times  I  had  to  leave  the  Tabernacle  and  address  them 
on  the  streets,  on  one  occasion  talking  to  twenty  thousand 
people. 

At  last  I  prepared  to  leave  Australia.  Talmage  can  find 
the  record  of  the  honor  shown  me  then.  I  have  the  engraved 
and  engrossed  address  with  which  I  was  presented  on  behalf 
of  thousands  of  persons  in  Australasia  to  this  day.  They  gave 
me  also  a  very  large  sum  of  money  in  gold  just  as  I  was  about 
to  leave  Melbourne. 

At  Sydney  and  in  several  cities  in  New  Zealand  I  received 
addresses  and  presents  of  gold.  When  I  stepped  on  board  ship 
to  come  to  America,  I  had  expended  my  gold  so  largely  in  my 
work  in  New  Zealand  that  I  had  but  a  few  hundred  dollars  in 
my  pocket,  but  I  landed  on  this  Continent  with  some  money. 
I  came  to  San  Francisco  with  my  wife  and  family  as  first-class 
passengers  on  board  the  steamship  "  Mariposa,"  arriving  there 
on  June  9,  1888.  Paupers  do  not  travel  many  thousands  of 
miles  at  their  own  cost,  as  first-class  passengers.  I  went  to  the 
Palace  Hotel,  which  I  made  my  headquarters,  when  in  San 
Francisco,  for  the  greater  part  of  the  two  years  which  I  spent  on 
the  Pacific  Coast,  and  I  always  paid  my  way  honestly.  I  had 
the  blessing  of  God,  and  was  no  pauper 

I  could  never  have  been  a  pauper. 

I  would  not  be  a  pauper.  I  would  go  out  into  the  street, 
and  would  make  you  buy  LEAVES  OF  HEALING. 


SO  Z ION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

"LEAVES  OF  HEALING!  All  about  what  Dowie  says  of 
Talmage!"  (Applause  and  laughter.) 

I  would  make  you  buy. 

But  I  have  given  my  money,  my  time,  my  talent,  and 
poured  it  out,  and  if,  after  eleven  years  of  work,  God  crowns 
my  efforts  and  builds  up  Zion,  and  makes  its  institutions  rich 
and  strong  and  powerful,  I  thank  God  for  it.  (Applause.) 

TALMAGE'S  CONTEMPTIBLE   AND   UNGENTLEMANLY  ATTACK   UPON 

MRS.  DOWIE. 

There  are  no  words  severe  enough  to  characterize  this 
wretch  for  what  he  now  says: 

His  wife,  his  co-laborer  in  this  stupendous  fraud,  is  besilked,  bedia- 
monded,  and  bewagoned  ad  infinitum,  ad  nauseam. 

What  language  could  adequately  punish  this  scoundrel  for 
speaking  regarding  Mrs.  Dowie  as  my  co-laborer  in  a  stupen- 
dous fraud?  Why  did  he  not  have  the  manliness  to  at  least 
keep  my  wife  out  of  it,  the  low,  dirty  dog  that  he  is? 

What  has  Mrs.  Dowie,  with  her  tenderness  and  her  sympa- 
thy and  her  love,  done  to  merit  being  thrown  into  the  street 
and  covered  with  this  dirty  fellow's  mud?  Shame  to  him! 

Has  not  Mrs.  Dowie  been  kind,  gentle  and  loving? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Today  she  is  not  dressed  any  more  than  a  lady 
in  her  position  ought  to  be,  is  she? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Mrs.  Dowie  is  completely  beyond  all  suspicion 
of  being  a  worker  in  any  fraud,  and  so  am  I,  you  scoundrel, 
you  liar,  you  defiler  of  good  people's  names.  How  dare  you? 

TALMAGE  JUNIOR  ON  THE  WITNESS  STAND.  ' 

He  asks  that  I  should  go  into  the  witness  box.  He  went 
through  the  farce  of  a  supposed  examination.  I  will  put  him 
on  the  stand. 

Frank  Talmage,  stand  up.  Raise  your  hand  and  swear  (or 
affirm)  that  you  will  tell  the  truth. 

What  is  your  name?     "Frank  Talmage."     (Laughter.) 

What  is  your  business?     "Presbyterian  minister." 

Ah!  Frank  Talmage,  I  want  to  ask  a  little  about  you. 
Where  did  you  come  from?  "  Pittsburg." 

Why  did  you  leave?     "Because  I  had  to."     (Laughter.) 

Frank  Talmage,  did  you  offer  yourself  as  a  chaplain  for 
the  Second  Illinois  Regiment  of  Chicago?  "I  did." 

Did  you  not  make  a  great  display  of  it,  saying  you  were 
going  to  the  war  to  cover  the  boys  with  the  Flag  of  the  Cross? 
"Yes." 

Did  you  go  with  them?     "I  did." 

How  far  did  you  go?     "To  Jacksonville."     (Laughter.) 

Where  did  your  regiment  go?     "To  Cuba," 


Z 'ION'S  HOLY   WAR.  5* 

Why  didn't  you  go?     "Because  I  was  a  coward." 

Frank  Talmage,  do  you  know  a  man  named  Ohneth?     "I 

do." 

Was  he  a  member  of  your  Church?     "Yes." 

His  child  was  very  sick,  and  you  received  a  message  asking 

you  to  come  and  see  the  child  and  pray  for  it?     "Yes." 

Why  did   you   not  go?     "Oh,  I  told  Ohneth  I  didn't  have 

time." 
*  You  hadn't  time,  but  you  had  time  to  get  up  a  lawn  party, 

a  masquerade,  where  they  were  all  dressed  in  the  follies  of  the 

time?     "Yes." 

Has  Ohneth  left  your  Church?     "Yes." 

Why?     "Because  he  became  a  member  of  your  Church." 

Why  is  he  a  member  of  Zion?     "Because  he  was  saved  and 

healed  in  Zion  when  he  was  dying." 

So  then,  Frank  Talmage,  that  is  the  reason  you  are  howling, 

because  your  members  are  leaving  and  coming  to  Zion? 

MR.  TALMAGE'S  FOOLISH  INTERFERENCE  IN  MR.  TORREY'S  AFFAIRS. 

He  devotes  the  rest  of  his  attack  to  Mr.  Torrey  and  to  M*r. 
Moody.  Now,  I  have  been  quite  interested  in  that  attack.  I 
have  been  watching  it  very  closely.  Mr.  Torrey  does  not  deny 
a  single  line  of  the  letter  which  I  printed.  He  also  admits 
that  he  invited  me  to  read  that  letter  publicly.  Mr.  Torrey  is 
too  thorough  a  gentleman  and  too  true  a  Christian  to  deny  a 
single  word  he  has  written.  (Applause.) 

This  attack  upon  Mr.  Torrey  and  Mr.  Moody  is  really  a 
matter  with  which  I,  properly  speaking,  have  no  concern.  The 
Chronicle,  which  took  up  the  cudgels  the  other  day  for  Mr. 
Torrey,  was  kind  enough  to  say  that  it  did  not  need  to  take  up 
the  cudgels  for  me,  because  I  was  quite  able  to  take  care  of 
myself.  (Applause  and  laughter.) 

I  will  leave  these  gentlemen  to  take  care  of  themselves. 

But  I  do  not  think  that  either  of  them  is  prepared  to  obey 
Talmage  Junior's  impudent  directions.  It  was  a  sad  blow  to 
him  to  find  that  Mr.  Torrey,  Superintendent  of  the  Moody 
Institute,  was  a  believer  in  Divine  Healing  as  a  present  day 
reality. 

But  I  desire  to  speak  of  Mr.  Moody's  strange  actions  this  last 
week. 

I  am  aware  of  the  fact  that  in  the  dark  days  of  Chicago  Mr. 
Moody  was,  on  the  North  Side  of  this  city  and  elsewhere,  a 
very  bright  and  shining  light.  That  he  did  much  good  I  have 
no  doubt  at  all. 

It  was  with  great  reluctance  that  I  replied  to  Mr.  Moody's 
repeated  and  very  ignorant  attacks  upon  myself  and  upon  Zion. 

You  can  find  that  reply  in  LEAVES  OF  HEALING  for  March 
12,  1899,  pages  457-462. 


52  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

I  do  not  wish  now,  especially  as  Mr.  Moody  is  suffering,  to 
say  anything  ungentlemanly  or  unchristlike,  although  I  hold 
that  Mr.  Moody  has  done  very  wrong. 

Mr.  Moody,  I  fear,  has  gotten  to  the  point  where  many 
men  get,  where  perhaps  I  shall  be  in  danger  of  getting  some 
day — and  may  God  help  me  then  to  remember  this  lesson  from 
Mr.  Moody — where  a  man  who  has  done  much  good  undoes 
much  of  it  by  being  unprogressive,  and  unwilling  to  acknowl- 
edge the  good  that  others  do.  God  forbid  that  I  should  ever 
stand  there.  Mr.  Moody  and  the  churches  are  confronted 
with  Zion.  They  do  not  know  what  to  make  of  Zion. 

Many  have  spoken  very  foolishly  by  not  understanding 
what  they  were  attacking,  Mr.  Moody  amongst  them.  Mr. 
Moody  knows  that  in  the  two  years  and  seven  months  since 
we  entered  this  Tabernacle,  Zion  has  baptized  five  thousand 
two  hundred  persons.  In, three  years  and  seven  months  Zion 
has  grown  from  lessthen  five  hundred  members  to,  as  near  as 
we  can  tell,  thirty  thousand.  For  this  we  thank  God. 

Zion  has  planted  her  flag  upon  every  Continent. 

In  some  of  the  States  we  have  as  many  as  seventy,  eighty 
and  one  hundred  and  fifty  points  where  we  have  members,  in 
large  or  small  gatherings.  Zion  stands  before  the  world  as  a 
body  of  men  and  women  who  know  what  they  are  about,  and 
are  going  at  it  in  a  thoroughly  businesslike  manner. 

Mr.  Moody  planted  the  Chicago  Avenue  Church  more  than 
thirty  years  ago.  Today  his  Tabernacle  could  not  contain  the 
three  thousand  persons  who  are  in  Zion  Tabernacle  now. 

Mr.  Moody's  Church  is  not  as  large  as  Zion  in  Chicago. 
Sometimes  we  sit  at  the  Lord's  Table  in  this  Tabernacle  with 
two  thousand  five  hundred  communicants,  ninety-five  per  cent 
of  whom  are  members  of  this  Church. 

MR.    MOODY   SAYS    DISEASE     IS   NOT   OF     THE    DEVIL.      THE    BIBLE 

SAYS   IT   IS. 

It  was  reported  in  several  of  the  papers,  and  Mr.  Moody 
does  not  dispute  it,  that  he  said: 

When  we  talk  of  disease  being  the  Devil's  work,  that  is  downright 
nonsense. 

Now  I  am  glad  that  I  can  take  this  matter  for  a  moment 
from  the  region  of  personality  to  the  region  of  doctrine. 

Did  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  talk  nonsense? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  He  not  say  in  the  synagogue  that  day, 
when  the  rabbi  was  angry  with  Him  because  He  healed  the 
woman  who  had  been  bowed  down  for  eighteen  years: 

Ought  not  this  woman,  being  a  daughter  of  Abraham,  whom  Satan  had 
bound,  To,  these  eighteen  years,  be  loosed  from  this  bond  on  the  day  of  the 
Sabbath? 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 


53 


Was  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  talking  nonsense  when  He  said 
that  Satan  had  bound  her?  Mr.  Moody,  Mr.  Moody,  have  you 
ever  thought  how  you  are  insulting  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  for 
He  said  that  woman  was  bound  by  the  Devil?  Was  the  Apostle 
Peter  a  fool  when  at  the  house  of  Cornelius  he  said : 

Jesus  of  Nazareth,  how  that  God  anointed  Him  with  the  Holy  Ghost  and 
with  the  power:  who  went  about  doing  good,  and  healing  all  that  were 
oppressed  of  the  Devil ;  for  God  was  with  Him? 

Was  the  Apostle  Peter,  speaking  under  the  inspiration  of  the 
Holy  Ghost,  a  fool  when  he  said  that  all  whom  Jesus  had  healed, 
"  every  sickness  and  every  disease  among  the  people,"  were  made 
sick  by  the  Devil?  Was  he  a  fool,  or  was  Mr.  Mo"ody  a  fool? 

Voices — "Mr.  Moody." 

Dr.  Dowie — Mr.  Moody  did  not  offer  you  any  Scripture  for 
his  opinion,  but  said  that  if  he  were  to  get  sick,  he  would  send 
for  the  best  doctor  in  Chicago,  and  do  what  he  told  him,  and 
then  trust  the  Lord,  and  he  would  get  well. 

WHO    IS   THE    BEST    DOCTOR    IN    CHICAGO  ? 

Mr.  Moody,  the  words  were  scarcely  out  of  your  lips  before 
you  fell  sick. 

Overseer  Wilhide  prayed,  on  the  morning  of  Thursday,  the 
5th  day  of  October,  that  if  you  would  not  speak  the  truth,  God 
might  permit  your  mouth  to  be  closed  in  Chicago.  God 
answered  that  prayer  by  permitting  the  Devil  to  afflict  you. 

Where  is  the  best  doctor  in  Chicago  now?  He  could  not 
help  you  and  so  you  left  Chicago,  because  you  could  neither 
trust  the  Chicago  doctor  nor  the  Lord.  (Applause.) 

The  best  Chicago  doctor  was  tried,  and  he  did  not  do  any- 
thing. Then  the  Lord  would  not  answer,  so  Mr.  Moody  packed 
up  his  portmanteau,  and  went  home  again.  (Laughter.) 

Mr.  Moody,  you  are  flattered  by  the  press,  because  you  are 
not  brave  enough  to  smite  the  sins  of  the  churches;  you  are 
not  brave  enough  to  denounce  Secretism ;  you  are  not  brave 
enough  to  denounce  the  liquor  traffic  as  you  used  to  do;  you 
are  not  brave  enough  to  denounce  tobacco;  you  are  not  brave 
enough  to  denounce  the  hypocrisy  of  the  churches.  You  are 
not  brave:  for  you  are  afraid  of  losing  the  friendship  of  the 
apostate  denominational  churches. 

Mr.  Moody,  you  are  not  only  wrong  in  your  theology  in 
saying  that  disease  is  not  the  work  of  the  Devil,  but  you  are 
wrong  in  your  theology  regarding  the  healing  of  the  sick. 

DOES     MR.     MOODY     SET     HIMSELF     UP     AS     GREATER     AUTHORITY 
THAN    THE    APOSTLE   JAMES? 

The  Apostle  James,  an  apostle  whom  the  Lord  Himself 
ordained,  wrote  to  the  Church  at  large  in  one  of  the  Catholic 
epistles:  "Is  any  among  you  sick?  Let  him  call  for  the— 
best  doctor  in  the  town?"  (Laughter.) 


54  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

Audience— u< The  Elders  of  the  Church.'" 

Dr.  Dowie — " — and  let  them  pray  over  him,  anointing  him 
with  oil  in  the  Name  of  the  Lord,  and  the  prayer  of  faith  shall 
save  him  that  is  sick,  and  the  Lord  shall  raise  him  up,  and  if 
he  have  committed  sins  it  shall  be  forgiven  him." 

Mr.  Moody,  you  say  you  call  upon  the  Lord  after  you  get 
through  with  the  doctor.  The  doctor  will  never  get  through 
with  you  while  you  have  a  dollar.  He  will  say,  "While  there 
is  life,  there  if  hope  for — dollars."  (Laughter.) 

If  you  happen  to  be  poor,  he  will  be  candid  and  say  nothing 
can  be  done  for  you. 

Mr.  Moody,  you  have  talked  nonsense.  God  has  permitted 
you  to  be  put  to  shame,  and  where  are  you?  On  your  back  in 
Northfield,  Massachusetts,  suffering  from  a  severe  cold,  with 
symptoms  of  pneumonia,  leaving  your  engagements  in  Chicago 
and  elsewhere. 

I  will  do  my  duty.  In  the  reply  which  I  made  to  you,  on 
the  platform  of  Zion  Tabernacle  on  March  I2th  of  this  year,  I 
said: 

Dwight  L.  Moody  cannot  lie  about  this  work  and  live.  Dwight  L. 
Moody,  God  Almighty  is  tired  of  your  hatred  of  Zion,  and  of  your  fooling 
with  the  Roman  Catholic  Church. 

I  tell  Dwight  L.  Moody  today  that  God  is  against  him  in 
this  battle  against  Divine  Healing. 

MR.    MOODY    MUST   ADMIT    THE    TRUTH    OF    GOD'S    WORD, 

which  declared,  away  back  at  the  waters  of  Marah,  "I  am  the 
Lord  that  healeth  th'ee."  (Amen.) 

He  must  admit  the  truth  declared  by  Malachi  a  thousand 
years  later:  "I  am  the  Lord,  I  change  not,"  and  declared  by 
the  Apostle  Matthew  in  the  eighth  chapter  and  the  seventeenth 
verse,  "Himself  took  our  infirmities,  and  bare  our  diseases." 

God's  Word  declares  in  Hebrews,  "Jesus  Christ  is  the  same 
yesterday  and  today,  yea  and  forever." 

When  you  say  He  is  not,  Mr.  Moody,  you  have  lied.  You 
have  denied  the  Word  of  God.  You  have  not  lied  unto  man, 
you  have  lied  unto  God.  Christ  is  the  Healer  still. 

God  says  that  Jesus  Christ  is  still  the  same. 

Mr.  Moody,  you  defended  the  doctors;  they  ought  to  be 
very  much  obliged  to  you.  They  have  no  good  opinion  of 
themselves. 

Dr.  Belfield's  opinion,  when  they  discussed  the  question  as 
to  whether  or  not  medicine  was  a  science,  a  few  years  ago  at 
the  Sunset  Club,  was  put  into  these  words: 

The  'doctors  of  Chicago  are  divisible  into  three  classes :  The  first  are 
liars;  the  second  are  damned  liars,  and  the  third  are  expert  liars. 

Dr.  Belfield  knew  what  he  was  talking  about  much  better 
than  you  did. 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  55 

The  doctors  themselves  who  are  candid  will  tell  you  that 
five-sixths  of  the  doctors  of  Chicago  are  defilers  of  women  in 
hundreds  and  in  thousands  of  cases;  that  they  are  murderers 
of  the  unborn  babes;  that  they  are  a  disgusting  and  brutal  set 
of  men  covered  over  with  the  veneer  of  intellectuality.  They 
are  in  my  judgment  the  filthiest  and  most  degraded  class  in 
this  community. 

A  STORY  OF  PHYSICIANS'  FIENDISH  BRUTALITY. 

I  do  not  forget,  if  you  do,  how  they  brought  that  dear  girl, 
Anna  Shafer,  from  the  Cook  County  Hospital,  flung  her  upon 
the  floor,  and  stripped  her  naked  before  sixty  or  seventy  men 
in  the  Masonic  Temple.  She  was  suffering  from  a  very  myste- 
rious kind  of  disease:  a  form  of  rheumatism  which  might  be 
called  idiopathic  muscular  atrophy,  and  the  consequence  was 
that  not  one  single  joint  would  hold  together. 

Drs.  Sanger  Brown  and  Magrew  took  her  in  a  carriage  at 
night  from  what  was  supposed  to  be  a  dying  bed  in  Ward 
Number  24,  Cot  Number  2  of  the  Cook  County  Hospital.  She 
was  a  poor,  friendless  German  girl.  She  was  examined  in  an 
almost  naked  condition  by  over  sixty  doctors  for  an  evening's 
amusement,  and  then,  broken  hearted,  she  was  taken  back  to 
die  and  so  furnish  an  interesting  corpse  for  the  dissecting  room. 

But,  thanks  be  to  God,  one  day  Zion  went  into  that  Cook 
County  Hospital  and  took  her  out,  and  Anna  Shafer,  whom 
they  expected  to  die,  was  perfectly  healed.  (Applause.  Amen.) 

Her  story  and  picture  can  be  found  in  LEAVES  OF  HEALING, 
Volume  I,  Number  30,  April  26,  1895,  pages  465-467. 

Do  you  want  me  to  repeat  my  lecture  on  Doctors,  Drugs 
and  Devils?  You  can  have  it;  another  edition  of  it. 

In  one  way  or  another  the  newspapers  are  paid  by  these 
men  who  would  like  to  see  my  body  six  feet  below  the  soil. 
But  I  will  live  until  my  work  is  done.  (Applause.) 

If  there  is  any  one  here,  saint  or  sinner,  who  desires  to 
challenge  what  I  have  said,  challenge  it  now.  I  will  hear  you 
and  I  will  answer  you. 

No;  you  won't  talk,  but  you  will  still  do  your  lying. 

There  Frank  Talmage  lies. 

Let  us  leave  him  lying  there,  until  he  repents. 

God  will  decide,  God  does  decide,  between  us  now. 

I  am  ready  to  meet  my  enemies  at  the  Judgment  Seat  of 
Christ.  Pray  for  me. 

CALL. 

All  who  desire  to  serve  God  fully,  stand.  (The  greater  part 
of  the  audience  arose.)  Now  pray. 

PRAYER  OF  CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me 


56  ZION  *S  HOL  Y  WA  R. 

power  to  do  right,  no  matter  what  it  costs;  and  help  me  in  all  things  to 
glorify  Thee,  for  Jesus'  sake.  Amen.  (All  repeat  the  prayer,  clause  by 
clause,  after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

Did  you  mean  it? 
Audience—"  Yes." 

After  the  hymn  "Sin  No  More"  had  been  sung,  the  meet- 
ing was  closed  by  Dr.  Dowie  pronouncing  the 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil,  and  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 
grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide;  one  Eternal  God, abide  in  you,  bless 
you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


ZION'S    HOLY    WAR. 


OPENING   OF    NORTH    SIDE  ZION  TABERNACLE.     PRELUDE: 

SIN  IS   LAWLESSNESS.     SERMON:  THE 

EVERLASTING  GOSPEL. 


ON  the  evening  of  Lord's  Day,  October  8,  1899,  the  General 
Overseer  conducted  the  services  at  the  opening  of  the 
North  Side  Zion  Tabernacle,  at  the  corner  of  Lincoln  and 
Belden  Avenues.  The  services  were  announced  to  begin  at 
eight  o'clock,  but  long  before  that  time  every  seat  and  all  the 
standing  room  in  the  Tabernacle  had  been  occupied. 

The  audience  was  very  orderly  and  attentive,  although  so 
many  were  compelled  to  stand  throughout  the  services. 

Many  who  heard  the  General  Overseer  for  the  first  time 
at  this  meeting  were  convinced  of  the  truth  of  the  glorious 
Gospel  which  he  proclaimed,  and  Zion  won  many  new  friends. 


North  Side  Zion  Tabernacle,  Lord's  Day  Evening,  October  8,  1899. 

The  services  were  opened  by  the  congregation  singing 
Hymn  No.  44: 

Oh,  wondrous  Name,  by  prophets  heard 

Long  years  before  His  birth; 
They  saw  Him  coming  from  afar, 

The  Prince  of  Peace  on  earth. 
CHORUS— The  Wonderful!  The  Counsellor! 

The  Great  and  Mighty  Lord ! 
The  everlnsting  Prince  of  Peace! 
The  King,  the  Son  of  God. 

After  which  all  repeated  together  the  thirty-fifth  chapter 
of  Isaiah,  that  beautiful  hymn  of  Salvation,  Healing  and  Holi- 
ness which  is  so  often  repeated  in  Zion,  the  sentiments  of 
which  so  vividly  describe  the  work  which  God  is  doing  in  and 
through  Zion.  Dr.  Dowie  then  introduced 

REV.    WILBUR    G.    VOLIVA,     ELDER-IN-CHARGE,    NORTH     SIDE     ZION 

TABERNACLE. 

Elder  Voliva  spoke  as  follows: 

"I  assure  you,  beloved  friends,  that  I  am  glad  to  meet  you 
upon  this  occasion.  I  shall  be  very  happy  to  meet  you  in  the 
future  at  our  services.  We  come  to  you  not  in  our  own 
strength,  but  in  the  strength  of  Jehovah.  We  come  to  you 

War-57 


58  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

bringing  glad  tidings  of  a  Full  Gospel — a  Gospel  that  will  save 
the  spirit,  the  soul  and  the  body.  We  know  that,  leaning  upon 
the  Everlasting  Arm,  and  so  conducting  ourselves  that  God 
can  work  through  us,  we  shall  be  a  blessing  to  you.  We 
heartily  invite  you  to  come,  and  to  listen  to  the  Word  of  God. 
That  is  all  we  expect  to  teach — the  Word  of  God. 
"May  the  Lord  bless  you  tonight." 

ELDER     JAMES    R.    ADAMS,    ASSISTANT     AT   NORTH     SIDE    ZION    TAB- 
ERNACLE, 

then  spoke  for  a  short  time.  During  the  course  of  his  remarks 
he  said : 

"You  laughed  at  me  a  few  minutes  ago  when  that  stove- 
pipe fell  down  and  gave  me  a  black  eye.  Well,  soot  is  very 
easily  washed  off,  and  while  I  was  out  there  washing  it  off  I 
thought  of  something  else,  and  that  was  sin,  which  stains  the 
hearts  of  men." 

A  Voice— "What  is  sin?" 

Dr.  Dowie — The  transgression  of  law. 

Elder  Adams — "And  I  thought  that  the  blood  of  Jesus 
Christ  cleanseth  us  from  all  sin,  but  not  before  we  have  done 
our  part.  We  must  first  repent  and  go  to  God,  confessing  our 
sins. 

"Zion  comes  to  you  with  a  Message  of  a  Full  Gospel  and 
free  Salvation,  and  may  God  bless  all  the  people  here  tonight." 


SIN  IS  LAWLESSNESS. 


Dr.  Dowie  then  delivered  the  following  prelude: 
A  brother  asked  just  now,  "What  is  sin?"  My  answer  was, 
"The  transgression  of  law."  Every  violation  of  God's  law  is 
sin.  Every  one  who  in  word,  or  thought,  or  deed  violates 
God's  law  is  a  sinner,  and  only  God  Himself  can  forgive  our 
past  sins,  and  give  us  the  power  to  no  longer  trangress,  but  to 
keep  His  law. 

The  law  of  the  Lord  is  perfect,  restoring  the  soul ;  the  testimony  of  the 
Lord  is  sure,  making  wise  the  simple. 

I  am  so  glad  the  friend  asked  that  question.  I  give  you  the 
answer,  "Sin  is  the  transgression  of  law,"  or,  as  the  Revised 
Version  of  John  3:4  puts  it,  "Sin  is  Lawlessness." 

The  Voice — "Well,  I  don't  know  what  the  law  is." 

Dr.  Dowie — Let  me  tell  you,  then,  what  the  law  is. 

The  law  is  contained  in  the  Word  of  the  Living  God.  You 
can  get  it,  first  of  all,  in  the  Ten  Commandments.  You  can 
get  it  in  the  Everlasting  Gospel,  and  especially  in  the  Eleventh 
Commandment  which  Jesus  gave: 

A  new  commandment  I  give  unto  you,  that  ye  love  one  another;  even 
as  I  have  loved  you. 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  59 

The  other  commandments  never  rose  higher  than  that  you 
should  love  your  neighbor  as  yourself. 

This  commandment  requires  that  you  should  do  for  your 
neighbor  what  you  would  never  expect  your  neighbor  to  do  for 
you. 

Prayer  was  then  offered  by  Elder  Reiff,  the  announcements 
made  and  the  tithes  and  offerings  received. 

THE  EVERLASTING  GOSPEL. 


Dr.  Dowie  then  delivered  the  following  discourse: 
INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight  and  profitable  unto  this  people,  and  unto  all  to  whom 
these  words  shall  come,  in  this  and  every  land,  in  this  and  all  the  coming 
time,  till  Jesus  come,  for  His  sake.  Amen. 

The  first  chapter  of  the  Gospel  according  to  St.  Mark: 

The  beginning  of  the  Gospel  of  Jesus  Christ,  the  Son  of  God. 

Even  as  it  is  written  in  Isaiah  the  prophet, 

Behold,  I  send  My  messenger  before  thy  face, 

Who  shall  prepare  the  way; 

The  Voice  of  one  crying  in  the  wilderness; 

Make  ye  ready  the  way  of  the  Lord, 

Make  His  paths  straight; 

John  came,  who  baptized  in  the  wilderness  and  preached  the  baptism  of 
repentance  unto  remission  of  sins.  And  there  went  out  unto  him  all  the 
country  of  Judea,  and  all  they  of  Jerusalem;  and  they  were  baptized  of 
him  in  the  River  Jordan,  confessing  their  sins. 

Now  after  that  John  was  delivered  up,  Jesus  came  into  Galilee,  preach- 
ing the  Gospel  of  God,  and  saying,  The  time  is  fulfilled,  and  the  Kingdom 
of  God  is  at  hand:  repent  ye,  and  believe  the  Gospel. 

I  desire  to  speak  to  you  about  the  Everlasting  Gospel. 

The  foundation  of  that  Gospel  is  not  Faith. 

If  you  wish  to  send  a  man  to  hell,  tell  him  to  believe  on  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

Some  may  say,  "  Dr.  Dowie,  we  know  you  are  wrong." 

Why? 

"Because  Paul  and  Silas  in  the  jail  of  Philippi  said  to  the 
Philippian  jailer,  '  Believe  on  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  and  thou 
shalt  be  saved.'  That  shows  you  that  to  believe  on  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ  is  the  first  thing." 

It  shows  no  such  thing.  Had  not  that  Philippian  jailer 
repented? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — He  had  beaten  them  and  put  their  feet  fast  in 
the  stocks,  and  put  them  in  the  inner  prison.  At  midnight 
Paul  and  Silas  sang  praises  and  the  prisoners  heard  them,  and 
God  heard  them.  The  earthquake  came,  and  the  drunken 
jailer  jumped  out  of  his  miserable  den,  no  matter  how  beauti- 
ful it  was,  and  drew  his  sword,  saying,  "It's  no  use,  they  are  all 
gone;  I  may  as  well  kill  myself." 


60  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

He  was  about  to  plunge  his  sword  into  his  heart  when  from 
the  innermost  prison  there  came  a  cry:  "  Do  thyself  no  harm, 
for  we  are  all  here." 

What  voice  was  that?  It  was  the  voice  of  the  man  whom 
he  had  beaten,  whom  he  had  tried  to  kill,  whom  he  had  dis- 
honored, whom  he  had  put  in  prison  because  he  had  cast  a 
devil  out  of  a  woman,  because  he  had  wrought  mighty  works  of 
healing.  Because  the  newspapers  were  against  him.  The 
Philippian  Tribune,  the  Philippian  Record,  and  the  Philippian 
Daily  News,  or  their  ancient  equivalents,  were  all  against  him. 
The  voice  of  Paul  was  heard,  "Do  thyself  no  harm." 

When  that  voice  went  to  that  jailer's  heart — where  his  sword 
would  have  been  but  for  that  voice — he  then  saw  himself  as 
God  saw  him.  It  took  an  earthquake  to  make  him  see.  It 
takes  about  an  earthquake  to  make  some  people  see  their  real 
condition  spiritually. 

The  Apostle  Paul  had  a  God  who  heard  his  cry,  who 
answered  by  the  thunders,  and  the  lightning,  and  the  earth- 
quake, and  the  fire. 

A  God  who  answers  by  fire  is  Zion's  God  in  every  age. 
(Amen.) 

The  conviction  came  to  his  heart  that  the  true  God  was 
Paul's  God.  He  called  for  a  light,  and  sprang  in  and  fell  at 
his  prisoners'  feet.  He  besought  their  mercy.  He  told  them 
how  sorry  he  was,  how  penitent  he  was.  In  his  penitence,  in 
his  repentance,  he  cried,  "What  must  I  do  to  be  saved?"  To 
such  a  man  the  answer  came  rightly,  "Believe."  But  if  you 
tell  a  man  to  believe  who  has  not  repented,  you  will  curse  him  ; 
you  will,  perhaps,  send  him  to  hell,  by  deceiving  him  into 
thinking  that  saying  "I  believe"  is  the  beginning  of  the  Gospel. 

The  churches  are  full  of  people  who  have  said,  "  Credo,  I 
believe,"  but  they  have  never  repented. 

REPENTANCE    IS   THE    BEGINNING   OF   THE    GOSPEL. 

Repentance  was  what  John  the  Baptist  preached;  it  was 
what  Jesus  preached. 

He  said,  "Repent  ye,  and  believe  the  Gospel." 

The  tremendous  blunders  of  the  molasses  minister  is  this 
wretched  cry,  "  Believe,  believe,  believe.  Only  say  you  believe, 
and  you  will  be  saved.  Everything  is  settled  with  God  and 
man  when  you  say,  I  believe." 

You  can  say  that  as  much  as  you  please,  and  you  can 
believe  with  your  intellect  and  be  damned  by  your  practices. 

Are  there  not  multitudes  in  this  city  who  say,  "I  believe  in 
God  the  Father  Almighty,  Maker  of  heaven  and  earth"?  Are 
they  any  better? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — It  is  easy  to  say  I  believe. 


ZION'S   HOLY    WAR.  6 1 

But  the  first  thing  is  not  "  I  believe,"  but  "  I  repent.  Father, 
I  have  sinned  against  heaven,  and  in  Thy  sight:  I  am  no  more 
worthy  to  be  called  Thy  son:  make  me  as  one  of  Thy  hired 
servants." 

That  is  the  place  to  begin.     Repentance. 

Jesus  said : 

I  am  not  come  to  call  the  righteous,  but  sinners  to  repentance. 

Jesus  said: 

Except  ye  repent,  ye  shall  all  in  like  manner  perish. 

The  Apostle  Paul  preached  Repentance  toward  God  and 
Faith  in  in  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

Repentance!      Repentance! 

You  thieves,  you  must  give  back  what  you  stole!  You  liars, 
you  must  confess  the  lies  you  have  told! 

If  everybody  in  Chicago  who  had  stolen  repented  tonight, 
there  would  be  a  great  deal  of  money  change  hands  tomorrow 
morning.  (Applause  and  laughter.) 

If  every  Ananias  and  Sapphira  in  the  Church  were  to  fall 
dead  for  telling  a  lie,  how  many  funerals  would  there  be 
tomorrow? 

Repentance  is  the  first  thing. 

That  goes  deep. 

Do  you  desire  to  put  your  foundation  upon  the  Eternal 
Rock?  Dig  deep!  Digdeep!  Get  up  the  muck  of  your  past 
lives.  Dig  deep!  Dig  deep!  Get  to  the  Rock. 

THE   ONLY   WAY   TO    GET   TO    THE    ROCK    IS   TO    DIG   DEEP. 

Go  back  into  your  lives.  If  they  went  back  into  their  lives, 
doubtless  there  are  many  husbands  here  who  would  have  a  sad 
tale  of  sin  and  deception  to  unfold,  tonight,  to  the  listening 
ears  of  their  patient  and  deceived  wives. 

You  women  are  not  all  angels,  either.  (Laughter.)  There 
are  some  of  you  who  were  liars  from  the  very  start.  You  had 
such  a  beautiful  complexion,  and  a  lovely  form,  when  your 
lover  saw  you!  When  he  married  you  he  found  that  you  had 
bought  your  complexion  in  a  paint-shop,  and  found  your  lovely 
form  was  all  stuffing.  (Laughter.)  You  wretches!  You  mis- 
erable liars!  You  seemed  to  have  such  sweet  tempers,  and 
how  sweet  you  were!  You  turned  out  vixens,  and  constant 
naggers. 

You  are  not  all  angels,  although  for  the  most  part  you  are 
a  great  deal  better  than  these  men  who  said,  when  they  mar- 
ried you :  "  Bessie,  be  my  wife.  Oh,  be  my  wife !  (Laughter.) 
Be  my  wife,  Bessie;  be  my  wife,  and  your  society  will  be  the 
object  of  my  life." 

You  scoundrel!  You  are  a  member  of  every  society  in 
town  except  the  Home  Society.  (Laughter  and  applause.) 
Oh,  you  liars! 


62  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

What  confessions  you  have  to  make!  You  belong  to  the 
Elks  and  the  Buffalos,  the  Red  Men  and  the  Odd  Fellows,  and 
you  are  a  Mason  and  a  Woodman. 

You  are  splendid  joiners.     You  join  everything. 

You  wretched  liars!  You  are  nice  husbands.  You  must 
repent!  You  must  leave  the  Secret  Lodge,  and  all  "the 
unfruitful  works  of  darkness,"  and  seek  to  "walk  in  the  light." 

Some  of  you  women  belong  to  the  Eastern  Star  and  the 
Maccabees.  You  women  who  neglect  your  homes  and  neglect 
your  God,  and  neglect  your  duties  to  go  to — what?  To  these 
wretched  Secret  Societies  which  dig  the  grave  of  happiness, 
and  dig  the  grave  of  home,  and  dig  the  grave  of  justice,  and 
dig  the  grave  of  the  Nation.  May  God  smite  Secretism.  (Ap- 
plause.) Zion  will  make  it  hot  for  the  Maccabees,  and  every 
other  kind  of  secret  society  wasp:  for  they  are  not  honey  bees, 
but  hornets. 

I  will  vex  the  soul  of  you  Mah-hah-bones,  you  Masons,  who 
weep  over  Hiram  Abiff,  the  son  of  the  widow,  and  smell  his 
stinking  body  every  night!  (Applause  and  laughter.) 

You  miserables,  you  are  talking  about  the  resurrection  of 
Hiram  Abiff  by  King  Solomon!  Hiram  Abiff  never  lived,  and 
King  Solomon  never  resurrected  him.  You  have  all  that  hum- 
bug in  your  hearts,  and  think  you  are  Christians,  do  you?  You 
Masons  think  you  are  Christians,  and  yet  you  dare  not  name 
His  Name  within  your  Lodge.  How  can  you  be  so  hypo- 
critical? 

MASONRY   IS   UNCHRISTIAN   AND   ANTICHRISTIAN. 

You  know  it  to  be  true,  that  in  all  the  thirty-three  degrees 
of  straight  Masonry  in  the  Scottish  Rite  the  Name  of  Jesus  is 
not  once  mentioned.  You  know  it  to  be  true  that  in  the 
three  degrees  of  the  Blue  Lodge,  which  are  the  fundamentals 
of  everything  in  Masonry,  the  Name  of  Jesus  is  not  mentioned. 
You  know  that  every  place  where  there  is  a  quotation  from  the 
Bible  in  which  His  Name  should  occur,  it  is  cut  out.  Yet  you 
have  been  fooling  them  with  the  lie  that  Masonry  is  founded 
on  the  Bible.  You  know  perfectly  well  that  Jesus  Christ  dare 
not  be  mentioned  in  a  Lodge.  His  Name  is  tabooed;  for  the 
infidel  and  the  Jew  and  those  who  deny  His  Divinity  are  your 
"brothers." 

What  does  Zion  mean  by  repentance? 

Zion  means  exactly  what  God  means:  that  you  must  con- 
fess and  make  right  your  wrongs.  If  you  have  lied,  you  must 
make  it  right.  You  must  confess  it  if  you  have  lied  to  wife  or 
husband,  or  to  employer  or  fellow  employee.  If  you  have 
defrauded,  you  must  restore. 

Zion  demands  a  real  Repentance,  full  confession  and  resti- 
tution. You  have  no  right  to  say  you  have  a  spark  of  faith 
unless  you  have  repented.  Repent!  Repent! 


ZION'S   HOLY    WAR.  63 

Repent  ye  and  be  baptized  every  one  of  you  in  the  Name  of  Jesus 
Christ  unto  the  remission  of  your  sins;  and  ye  shall  receive  the  gift  of  the 
Holy  Ghost. 

If  you  truly  repent,  you  will  quickly  be  baptized. 

"  Doctor,  I  was  baptized  when  I  was  a  baby." 

Do  you  call  the  sprinkling  of  a  little  water  on  a  baby's  nose 
baptism?  Where  do  you  find  that  in  the  Bible?  There  is  no 
such  thing  in  the  New  Testament. 

Those  who  are  baptized  are  those  who  repent.  A  baby 
cannot  repent,  and  a  baby  cannot  believe.  Is  a  baby,  therefore, 
a  subject  of  baptism? 

Voices—"  No." 

THE    BAPTISM    WHICH    CHRIST    GAVE    IS    A    TRIUNE    BAPTISM. 

Dr.  Dowie — Repent  and  be  baptized,  every  one  of  you,  into 
the  Name  of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Ghost. 

That  is  what  Christ  commands: 

Go  ye  therefore,  and  make  disciples  of  all  the  nations,  baptizing  them 
into  the  Name  of  the  Father  and  of  the  Son  and  of  the  Holy  Ghost:  teach- 
ing them  to  observe  all  things  whatsoever  I  commanded  you:  and  lo,  I  am 
with  you  alway,  even  unto  the  end  of  the  world. 

Is  He  the  same  always? 

Audience — "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — The  same  yesterday,  today  and  forever? 

Audience — "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — -Is  He  the  same  Saviour,  Healer,  Cleanser,  and 
Keeper? 

Audience — "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Is  He  with  us  all  the  time? 

Audience— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Is  Mr.  Moody  right  in  practically  saying  that 
Christ  is  not  the  same  Healer? 

Audience— "No." 

A  Voice — "Does  he  say  so?" 

Dr.  Dowie — Of  course  he  says  so.  He  says  you  have  to  go 
to  the  doctor  first  and  to  the  Lord  next.  That  is  not  putting 
the  Lord  as  the  Healer.  It  makes  Christ  a  last  resort. 

I  go  to  the  Lord  first,  and  to  the  Lord  last,  and  to  the  Lord 
all  the  time.  God  said,  "I  am  the  Lord  that  healeth  thee," 
and  Mr.  Moody  says,  "Go  to  the  best  doctor;  trust  him,  and 
then  trust  the  Lord." 

The  Bible  demands  that  you  shall  trust  the  Lord  from  the 
first  to  the  last.  It  is  a  most  insulting  thing  to  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  to  say,  "I  will  trust  the  doctor,  and  then  I  will  trust 
Thee.  But  I  will  only  seek  Thee  when  I  am  compelled  to  do 
so." 

Zion  says  you  are  to  repent  of  trusting  man. 

Cursed  is  the  "man  that  trusteth  in  man, 

You  have  to  trust  God, 


64  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

Some  may  say,  "Oh,  Doctor,  those  days  of  healing  are  long 
gone  by.  The  Lord  does  not  heal  now." 

Do  you  wish  to  see  a  demonstration?  Every  one  in  this 
room  who  has  been  healed  through  faith  in  Jesus  Christ,  stand. 
(About  one  hundred  arose.) 

A     HUNDRED     WITNESSES     TO     PRESENT-DAY     HEALING     THROUGH 

FAITH    IN   JESUS. 

Were  you  healed  through  faith  in  Jesus? 

Witnesses— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Who  healed  you? 

Witnesses—"  God." 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  He  use  me  as  His  minister? 

Witnesses— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  I  charge  you  anything? 

Witnesses—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie— A  real  salvation  saves,  and  a  real  healing  heals. 

Some  may  say,  "Oh,  Doctor,  Christ  is  not  the  same  today." 

Then  the  Bible  is  a  lie.  I  have  just  shown  you  those  in  this 
room  who  have  been  healed. 

"Nervous  disease!  Nervous  diseases!"  says  some  little 
whipper-snapper  of  a  student  at  the  Rush  Medical  College. 
"The  people  never  were  sick.  It  was  all  imaginary." 

Is  a  cancer  imaginary?     Not  quite. 

Was  that  story  of  Mrs.  Ruby  imaginary?  (LEAVES  OF 
HEALING,  Volume  V,  Number  49.) 

These  infernal  newspapers  do  not  tell  the  truth.  They  lie 
all  the  time. 

"Oh,  Doctor,  put  it  softly,"  said  one  to  me;  "they  make 
mistakes." 

Make  mistakes!  The  Daily  News  does  not  make  a  mistake. 
The  Record  does  not  make  a  mistake.  The  Tribune  does  not 
make  a  mistake.  They  lie  on  purpose.  They  make  no  mis- 
takes. 

The  newspaper  press  of  this  city  is  the  most  accursed  thing 
out  of  hell.  What  kind  of  men  are  these  who  seek  to  control 
the  public  mind?  Most  of  them  smoke  and  drink  and  stink, 
and  do  everything  but  think  and  pray.  They  are  anonymous 
assassins — stabbing  truth  and  virtue  in  the  darkness  and  parad- 
ing falsehood  and  vice  in  the  attire  of  their  murdered  victims. 
But  God  will  smite  and  expose  those  whited  sepulchres,  even 
as  Christ  did  in  Jerusalem  long  ago. 

I    HAVE    DEFIED   THE   NEWSPAPER    PRESS    OF    CHICAGO. 

A  number  of  years  ago,  a  number  of  reporters  came  to  inter- 
view me  in  my  office,  which  was  then  in  the  Pullman  Building 
in  this  city.  I  said,  "Boys,  is  there  one  of  you  said  your 
prayers  this  morning?"  They  all  scratched  their  heads  and 


ZION'S   HOLY    WAR.  65 

looked  at  one  another.  I  said,  "Would  you  like  your  mothers 
to  know  where  you  were  last  night?" 

"D d  if  I  would,"  said  one;  "  Blowed  if  I  would,"  said 

another. 

I  said,  "Were  you  not  with  harlots  and  gamblers,  you  dirty 
young  dogs?"  They  said,  "What  are  you  saying?" 

I  said,  "  I  am  calling  you  dirty  young  dogs.  What  are  you?" 
"Well,  Doctor,  you  are  not  polite." 

I  said,  "I  did  not  start  out  to  be  polite;  I  started  out  to  be 
true.  What  are  your  editors,  who  are  so  angry  with  me  for 
speaking  the  truth  yesterday  in  Washington  Hall?  They  are 
liars.  Go  back  and  tell  them  I  care  nothing  for  what  they 
write.  Let  them  curse  me!  Their  praise  of  my  work  would 
be  my  disgrace.  Let  them  curse  me!  Let  them  lie  about  me 
as  they  did  about  my  Master.  He  said  of  the  writers  of  His 
day, '  Ye  scribes,  ye  generation  of  vipers!  How  shall  ye  escape 
the  damnation  of  hell?'  Do  you  think  I  care  a  pin  for  your 
threats  of  vengeance?  Not  a  pin!" 

I  care  nothing  for  the  vox popidi.  Zion  believes  in  the  rule 
of  God,  not  of  the  people:  for  they  do  not  know  how  to  rule 
themselves. 

Zion  believes  in  a  perfect  salvation  for  spirit,  soul  and 
body. 

Man  has  a  tripartite  nature  and  is  not  a  dual  being.  Zion 
believes  in  the  cleansing  of  spirit  and  body,  a  perfect  redemp- 
tion. 

Was  that  not  what  Jesus  preached? 

Audience — "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Has  the  Gospel  changed? 

Audience — "  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — That  is  what  Zion  teaches,  that  is  what  Zion 
practices,  and  that  is  what  Zion  lives.  Zion  tells  you  people 
you  have  to  believe  that  or  be  damned.  You  have  to  believe 
what  God  says;  you  have  to  believe  in  Divine  laws.  If  you  do 
not  fully  obey  the  Divine  laws,  you  will  get  into  trouble.  If 
you  do  not  obey  Jesus  Christ,  He  will  be,  not  the  Rock  upon 
which  you  build,  but  that  which  falls  upon  you.  He  will  grind 
you  to  powder. 

You  cannot  trifle  with  Jesus  Christ.  He  has  all  power  in 
heaven  and  on  earth,  and  you  have  to  obey  Him.  You  have  to 
surrender  your  spirit,  your  soul,  your  body,  your  time,  your 
talents,  and  toil  for  Him,  and  live  for  Him,  and,  if  need  be,  die 
for  Him.  That  is  Christianity. 

It  is  not  Presbyterianism;  it  is  not  Methodism;  it  is  not 
Baptist  religion. 

Oh  no!  Theirs  consists  of  oyster  suppers  and  cake  walks. 
(Laughter.) 

"Doctor,  are  you  not  friendly  to  the  churches?" 


66  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

Oh  yes,  I  am  very  friendly  to  the  churches.  I  would  like 
to  smash  nearly  every  one  of  them. 

I    PRAY    GOD    TO    SMASH     THE    ORGANIZATIONS    AND   TO    SAVE    THE 

PEOPLE. 

God  had  to  smash  the  organizations  of  His  own  Church  to 
save  the  people.  He  had  to  smash  the  Jewish  Church. 

Was  He  not  the  Founder  of  the  Jewish  Church? 

Audience — "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie— Did  not  God  establish  the  office  of  High  Priest? 

Audience— "Yes." 

Dr  Dowie — Did  He  not  establish  the  whole  priestly  office? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — When  Christ  came  they  said,  "Are  you  going 
to  reform  the  Church?"  Jesus  said,  "If  you  put  a  patch  into 
that  old  coat,  you  will  make  it  worse.  If  you  put  new  wine  into 
that  miserable  old  wine  skin,  you  will  burst  the  bottle." 

In  like  manner  it  has  come  to  pass  today.  You  cannot  put 
the  old-time  Gospel  into  the  new-time  Methodism;  it  will 
smash  the  bottle,  because  it  is  only  an  old  miserable  goatskin 
controlled  by  the  Masonic  Mah-hah-bones  for  the  most  part. 

Zion  does  not  pretend  to  be  at  peace  with  the  churches. 
Zion  is  at  War  with  the  churches  Zion  accepts  the  battle,  and 
Zion  will  fight  it  out  on  this  line.  It  is  the  good  fight  of  Faith, 
and  a  fight  for  the  salvation  of  all  men. 

May  God  give  victory  to  those  who  are  right.     (Applause.) 

"Doctor,  do  you  not  think  God  can  do  something  with  the 
churches  yet?" 

No.  As  organizations  they  have  gone  to  the  Devil.  The 
bishops  and  the  members  and  the  leading  ministers  of  the 
Methodist  Church  have  gone  to  Freemasonry,  where  Christ  is 
not  named.  The  majority  of  the  leaders  of  other  churches  no 
longer  preach  Repentance;  they  no  longer  preach  a  Living 
Faith;  they  no  longer  demand  godly  living.  They  live  all 
kinds  of  lives. 

"  Doctor,  I  would  like  to  know  who  you  are." 

I  can  only  tell  you  I  am  God's  Messenger,  and  I  have  God's 
Message.  I  love  all  men.  I  never  fought  a  battle  for  God 
yet  with  any  malice  in  my  heart. 

My  battles  have  always  been  fought  for  the  purpose  of  win- 
ning the  victory  for  God  and  for  humanity.  I  shall  stand  up 
and  defend  the  truth.  I  shall  earnestly  contend  for  "the  faith 
once  for  all  delivered  to  the  saints";  for  the  Everlasting  Gos- 
pel of  Salvation,  and  of  Healing,  and  of  Holiness  through  faith 
in  Jesus  Christ,  my  Lord  and  God.  (Amen.) 

I  shall  fight  for  that.  It  is  the  old-time  religion  whcih  tells 
me  Jesus  saves  me,  heals  me,  cleanses  me,  keeps  me,  and  will 
take  me  safe  to  heaven. 


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Hallelujah  for  the  old-time  religion!  (Amen.)  Every  one 
who  desires  to  give  his  heart  to  God,  stand.  (The  greater  part 
of  the  audience  arose.) 

Now,  pray. 

PRAYER   OF  CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me 
power  to  do  right,  no  matter  what  it  costs ;  to  repent,  to  restore,  to  confess, 
to  do  right  in  Thy  sight,  and  to  all  men.  Give  me  Thy  Holy  Spirit  that  I 
may  have  power  over  all  the  enemy  within  me  and  without  me ;  that  I  may 
walk  in  wisdom,  in  love,  in  purity,  in  the  faith  of  God,  and  reach  heaven, 
for  Jesus'  sake.  (All  repeat  the  prayer,  clause  by  clause,  after  Dr.  Dowie,) 

Did  you  mean  it? 
Audience— "Yes." 
Dr.  Dowie — Will  you  live  it? 
Audience — "Yes." 
Dr.  Dowie — God  help  you. 

After  the  hymn  "Sin  No  More"  had  been  sung,  the  services 
were  closed  by  Dr.  Dowie  pronouncing  the 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil.  And  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 
grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide  ;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you,  bless 
you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


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ZION'S    HOLY   WAR. 


PRELUDE:     METHODISM    AND    ITS   HATRED  OF    ZION. 

SERMON:     REAP,   FOR  THE   HARVEST  OF 

THE   EARTH   IS  OVERRIPE. 


THE  opening  of  the  third  week  of  the  Three  Months'  Holy 
War  Against  the  Hosts  of  Hell  in  Chicago,  on  Lord's 
Day,  October  15,  1899,  was  signalized  by  unmistakable  evi- 
dences that  the  fighting  had  begun  in  earnest  all  along  the 
line.  Interest  and  attendances  were  largely  increased;  secular 
and  religious  press  opposition  had  become  more  bitter;  the 
denominational  ranks  had  begun  to  feel  the  disastrous  effect  of 
the  heavy  cannonading  from  Zion's  artillery,  and  had  set  up  a 
howl  of  bravado,  defiance  and  abuse,  which  deceived  no  intelli- 
gent persons,  serving  only  to  show  more  clearly  where  the 
shots  had  taken  effect. 

After  a  season  of  prayer  and  consecration  at  the  early  con- 
secration meeting  in  Zion's  Hall  of  Seventies,  and  another  in 
Zion  Home  Assembly  Room,  the  General  Overseer  delivered 
a  stirring  address  at  the  North  Side  Tabernacle,  before  an 
audience  which  filled  the  place.  The  weather  throughout  the 
whole  day  was  unseasonably  hot,  reaching  ninety  degrees,  and 
causing  general  distress.  But  it  did  not  seriously  affect  the 
throngs  who  come  to  Zion. 

In  the  afternoon,  at  Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  with  every 
token  of  approval  from  the  splendid  audience  of  over  two 
thousand  five  hundred  persons,  the  General  Overseer,  in  speak- 
ing of  the  recent  action  of  a  conference  in  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church  South,  in  expelling  from  fellowship  two  godly 
and  successful  ministers,  because  they  distributed  among  their 
people  LEAVES  OF  HEALING  and  A  VOICE  FROM  ZION,  demon- 
strated the  fact  that  this  Sampson  among  denominations  had 
sold  out  the  last  vestige  of  its  power  to  the  Masonic  Delilah 
and  had,  as  an  organization,  gone  wholly  to  the  Devil. 

This  prelude  was  followed  by  a  striking  declaration  of 
Zion's  sacred  mission  in  connection  with  the  harvest  of  the 

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70  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

earth,  now  overripe,  and  a  warning  to  the  world  that  the  tares, 
the  children  of  the  evil  one,  were  about  to  be  burned  with  fire, 
according  to  the  command  of  the  Lord  of  the  Harvest. 

A.  w.  N. 

Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  Lord's  Day  Afternoon,  October  i$,  1899. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing  Hymn  No.  159. 

The  Scripture  lesson  was  read  with  great  impressiveness 
and  mighty  effect  from  the  fourteenth  chapter  of  the  Book 
of  Revelation. 

Prayer  was  offered  by  Dr.  Dowie,  the  announcements  were 
made  and  the  tithes  and  offerings  received,  after  which  Dr. 
Dowie  said : 

I  have  promised  to  say  something  in  the  way  of  a  prelude 
before  my  afternoon  address,  and  the  subject  which  I  have 
announced  before  my  sermon  is,  as  you  will  see: 

METHODISM    AND    ITS    HATRED    OF    ZION. 

There  is  no  use  mincing  matters.  The  longer  we  live  the 
more  we  are  convinced  that  it  is  our  duty  to  use  great  plain- 
ness of  speech.  So  long  as  the  truth  is  spoken  in  love,  we  may 
speak  it  as  plainly  as  we  please. 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  both  South  and  North  has 
been  distinguishing  itself  for  a  long  time  by  a  series  of  very 
bitter  attacks  upon  Zion. 

This  began  away  back  in  1889  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  when 
from  being  friendly  to  myself  the  Methodist  body  suddenly 
became  antagonistic.  My  first  services  in  San  Francisco,  when 
I  landed  in  1888,  were  attended  by  very  large  numbers  of 
Methodist  ministers,  who  spoke  in  the  kindest  manner.  Many 
of  them  threw  open  their  churches,  and  earnestly  asked  us  to 
use  them. 

I  had  missions  in  San  Francisco  and  in  surrounding  cities 
which  were  very  largely  attended  by  Methodists. 

The  University  of  the  Pacific  showed  me  very  much  kind- 
ness and  attention,  and  I  remember  one  of  the  largest  missions 
I  had  was  held  in  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  San- 
Jose,  in  the  Santa  Clara  Valley,  not  very  far  away  from  San 
Francisco. 

But  within  a  few  months  all  was  changed. 

CRITICISM     OF    SECRET    SOCIETIES    STIRS    UP    ENMITY    OF 
METHODISTS. 

It  was  found  that  I  was  a  very  severe  critic  of  Secret 
Societies,  and  especially  of  Masonry — that  dark  deviltry  which 
is  cursing  this  country;  that  antichristian  abomination  which 
must  be  destroyed  if  the  Church  of  God  is  to  be  triumphant. 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  ?I 

Secretism  in  every  form,  and  Masonry  especially,  is  abso- 
lutely opposed  to  Christianity. 

No  man  can  be  a  true  and  sincere  Christian  and  a  Free- 
mason at  the  same  time. 

It  is  simply  impossible,  because  when  he  enters  into  a 
Masonic  Lodge,  he  is  forbidden  to  use  the  Name  of  Jesus 
Christ. 

The  Lodge,  although  it  uses  the  Bible  for  a  form  and  a 
deceit,  in  its  manual,  of  which  we  have  scores  of  copies,  elimi- 
nates the  Name  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  especially  in  the 
Scottish  Rite  Masonry,  in  its  thirty-three  degrees. 

There  are  many  Masons  present  who  have  been  through 
these  thirty-two  and  thirty-three  degrees,  and  they  never 
heard  the  Name  of  Jesus  Christ  once  mentioned  in  the 
Lodge. 

The  resurrection  they  talk  of  is  not  the  resurrection  of 
Jesus,  but  the  bogus  resurrection  of  Hiram  Abiff,  the  son  of  the 
widow  of  Tyre,  who  never  existed,  and  never  was  resurrected 
by  King  Solomon. 

When  the  lodges  of  the  Pacific  Coast  found  that  I  was 
antagonistic  to  Masonry,  I  very  quickly  found  that  the  Methdo- 
dist  ministers  and  bishops,  the  leading  men  of  the  Methodist 
Church,  and  their  boards  of  management,  who  were  all  Free- 
masons, began  to  lie  about  me,  to  shut  their  churches  against 
the  Divine  Healing  Mission,  and  to  unsay  all  the  good  things 
they  had  said  and  to  say  the  very  opposite. 

This  persecution  began,  therefore,  ten  years  ago,  in 
1898. 

It  has  continued,  and  Zion  has  had  to  take  the  place  that 
God  compels  her  to  take — -a  position  not  of  friendship,  but  of 
antagonism,  direct  and  bold,  against  existing  apostate  Protes- 
tant institutions,  as  well  as  against  the  apostate  churches  of 
Greece  and  Rome. 

You  who  have  been  readers  of  LEAVES  OF  HEALING  and 
attendants  on  my  ministry  for  five  years  do  not  need  me  to 
rehearse  to  you  what  I  have  written,  what  I  have  spoken,  and 
what  I  have  lived  in  this  matter. 

During  this  last  week  the  papers  have  in  Chicago  received 
and  published  long  telegrams  from  Oakland,  California,  con- 
cerning the  proceedings  of  a  Methodist  Conference  which 
expelled  two  ministers  for  heresy. 

I  hold  in  my  hand  a  series  of  letters  written  by  ministers 
who  have  been  expelled  from  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
South,  in  Oakland,  California,  which  is  just  across  the  bay  from 
San  Francisco. 

I  will  first  refer  to  the  printed  records,  which  are  officially 
and  exactly  given  to  the  papers  in  San  Francisco. 


72  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

Now  the  San  Francisco  Chronicle  of  this  day  week,  October 
8th,  contains  a  long  article  entitled: 

EXPELLED  FROM  THE  MINISTRY. 


TWO  METHODIST  PASTORS  ARE  GUILTY  OF  HERESY. 


REV.  W.  D.  TAYLOR  AND  REV.  S.  T.  REEVE  FOUND  AT  FAULT. 


The  Two  Clergymen  Confess  They  Circulated  Theological  Literature  That 
is  Deemed  to  be  Heterodox. 


The  annual  conference  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  South  in 
Oakland  yesterday  declared  W.  D.  Taylor,  pastor  of  the  Methodist  Church 
at  Willows,  and  S.  T.  Reeve,  pastor  of  the  Methodist  Church  at  Orland, 
guilty  of  heresy.  The  charges  were  made  yesterday  morning  by  Presiding 
Elder  J.  Emery,  of  the  Colusa  District,  who  called  up  the  matter  in  the  con- 
ference, and  said  that  he  was  of  the  opinion  that  an  investigation  should  be 
held.  According  to  Methodist  discipline,  this  suggestion  from  the  Presid- 
ing Elder  was  equivalent  to  a  request  that  an  investigation  be  held,  and 
Bishop  Duncan  appointed  A.  Odom,  R.  F.  Allen  and  W.  E.  Vaughan  to 
act  in  the  matter. 

The  members  of  the  committee  thus  appointed  went  into  a  secret  ses- 
sion with  the  accused  pastors,  after  which  the  following  findings  were 
reported  to  the  Bishop : 

"  We,  the  committee  appointed  to  investigate  the  complaint  against  W. 
D.  Taylor,  report,  after  due  investigation,  a  trial  necessary,  and  make  the 
following  findings  in  the  charge  of  distributing  publicly  and  privately  doc- 
trines contrary  to  our  articles  of  religion:  During  the  summer  of  1899  W. 
D.  Taylor  circulated  in  the  bounds  of  the  Colusa  District,  at  Willows, 
Princeton  and  Colusa,  Dowie  literature,  and  he  acknowledged  the  fact  to 
the  Presiding  Elder,  Joseph  Emery. 

"  In  the  case  of  S.  T.  Reeve  the  charges  are  the  same,  with  specifica- 
tions as  follows:  During  the  month  of  September,  1899,  S.  T.  Reeve  circu- 
lated in  the  home  of  Joseph  Emery  the  Dowie  literature,  and  acknowledged 
the  fact  to  Joseph  Emery.  During  the  month  of  July,  1899,  S.  T.  Reeve 
circulated  in  the  home  of  J.  M.  Pratt,  Dowie  literature,  and  acknowledged 
the  fact  to  J.  M.  Pratt.  On  July  25,  1899,  S.  T.  Reeve  wrote  a  letter  to  J. 
M.  Pratt  advocating  heresy.  During  the  session  of  the  Pacific  Annual  Con- 
ference, in  Oakland,  California,  on  October  7,  1899,  S.  T.  Reeve  acknowl- 
edged in  open  conference  that  he  had  during  the  conference  now  closing 
circulated  Dowie  literature." 

A  trial  committee  was  then  asked  for  and  the  Bishop  appointed  W.  J. 
Mahon,  W.  A.  Booker,  I.  F.  Belts,  J.  A.  Batchelor,  D.  Booher,  F.  M.  Stanton, 
W.  E.  Phillips,  C.  E.  Clark,  Z.  J.  Needham  and  H.  W.  Curran.  Upon  Rev. 
J.  J.  N.  Kenney  was  imposed  the  duty  of  acting  as  prosecutor.  The  com- 
mittee remained  in  session  all  afternoon,  and  at  the  evening  session  of  the 
conference  made  the  following  report : 

"  We,  the  committee  of  trial  in  the  case  of  Revs.  S.  T.  Reeve  and  W.  D. 
Taylor,  find  each  of  them  guilty  as  charged  in  the  bill  of  charges  and  spec- 
ifications, they  having  confessed  their  guilt,  and  we  recommend  that  they 
be  expelled  from  the  ministry  and  membership  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  South.  (Applause  and  laughter.) 

Why,  you  seem  to  be  happy.     (Laughter.) 
Then  it  is  signed  by  all  the  members. 

The  report  of  the  committee  was  adopted  without  discussion.  The 
expelled  ministers  hurriedly  left  the  conference  and  did  no?  return.  Secre- 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  73 

tary  Renfro,  of  the  conference,  is  authority  for  the  statement  that  it  is  not 
likely  they  will  ever  be  seen  in  a  Methodist  church  again. 

I  think  that  is  right. 

The  charges  preferred  against  the  clergymen  are  that  they  have  circu- 
lated the  literature  of  Rev.  Alexander  Dowie,  a  Chicago  religionist,  who 
some  years  ago  made  this  city  his  temporary  residence.  The  Dowie  the- 
ology, according  to  orthodox  Methodism,  is  heterodoxy  of  the  rankest  kind. 
Before  the  trial  committee  the  accused  clergymen  admitted  that  they  had 
circulated  the  literature,  and  had  accepted  its  teachings,  although  they  said 
they  had  not  renounced  Methodism;  but  the  committee  was  not  long  in 
coming  to  the  conclusion  that  there  was  no  place  in  the  Methodist  fold  for 
Rev.  Mr.  Taylor  and  Rev.  Mr.  Reeve. 

Bishop  Duncan  disliked  very  much  the  idea  of  discussing  the  affair, 
and  remarked  that  it  was  exceedingly  painful  for  him  even  to  think  of  the 
incident,  which,  in  a  measure,  had  marred  the  enjoyment  of  the  conference. 
While  he  did  not  say  so  in  so  many  words,  he  gave  the  impression  that  he 
approved  of  the  action  of  the  committee. 

Presiding  Elder  Emery  gave  the  findings  his  approval,  and  said : 
"These  clergymen  knowingly  circulated  this  Dowie  literature,  which  all  the 
members  of  this  conference  know  to  be  vicious,  heterodox,  and  a  direct  blow 
at  the  existence  of  Methodist  institutions.  I  regret  that  it  was  my  duty  to 
make  the  charge,  but  at  the  same  time  I  know  that  the  belief  of  Metho- 
dism"  

Now,  I  want  you  to  notice  this,  for  this  is  the  statement  of 
the  man  who  was  responsible  for  the  excommunication  of  these 
brethren.  He  says: 

— "the  belief  of  Methodism  and  the  Dowie  teachings  have  nothing  in 
common." 

I  desire  you  to  remember  that  sentence. 

"The  belief  of  Methodism  and  the  Dowie  teachings  have  nothing  in 
common.  The  trial  ended  in  the  only  manner  possible,  Tor  every  effort  was 
made  to  get  the  two  gentlemen  to  see  the  error  of  their  way,  and  if  they 
could  not  return  to  the  simple  teachings  of  the  Church  to  withdraw  and 
enter  the  field  to  which  they  believed  they  were  called.  They  refused  to 
adopt  either  course,  and  it  remained  for  the  Church  to  take  action." 

They  were  accordingly  expelled  from  membership  and 
from  the  ministry  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

I  think  I  will  place  the  facts  before  you  still  more  clearly 
by  reading  you  Mr.  Reeve's  own  letter  concerning  this.  Would 
you  like  to  hear  it? 

Audience — "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — I  do  not  know  these  brethren  at  all  personally. 
They  simply  have  been,  like  thousands  of  others,  readers  of 
LEAVES  OF  HEALING  and  of  A  VOICE  FROM  ZION.  They  have 
written  to  me  previous  letters  which  I  should  like  to  read,  but 
they  would  be  too  long.  These  letters  give  me  very  interest- 
ing accounts  of  their  work,  and  how  God  was  blessing  them. 

LETTER    OF   REV.  S.  T.  REEVE,   EXPELLED    FROM    METHODIST  CON- 
FERENCE   FOR    HIS    FAITH. 

OAKLAND,  CALIFORNIA,  October  7,  1899. 
REV.  JOHN  ALEX.  DOWIE. 

Dear  Brother: — The  conference  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
South  is  in  session  in  this  city.  It  began  Oct.  4th.  We  attended  the  con- 
ference. Three  ministers  of  the  above  mentioned  Church  brought  charges 


74  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

against  Rev.  W.  D.  Taylor  and  myself  for  circulating  the  literature  of  the 
Christian  Catholic  Church,  which  said  that  the  M.  E.  Church  South  was 
apostate  and  going  to  the  Devil. 

These  charges  were  made  after  I  read  my  report  of  thirty  conversions 
and  a  new  church  being  built. 

Mr.  Taylor  also  gave  in  an  excellent  report;  in  fact,  the  best  one  he 
ever  gave  in  all  his  ministry.  Then  the  charges  were  brought  in. 

It  seemed  as  if  an  explosion  had  taken  place.  Friends  begged  us  for 
the  Church's  sake  and  for  God's  sake  to  take  it  all  back,  for  it  would  ruin 
the  Church;  but  we  said,  No. 

We  came  before  a  committee,  and  there  also  said,  No.  Then  I  showed 
the  committee  how  it  was  that  the  churches  were  apostate  and  gone  to  the 
Devil.  I  proved  it,  too. 

Then  Taylor  gave  them  an  outline  of  the  Christian  Catholic  Church 
teachings,  ft  made  some  of  the  committee  very  uneasy,  especially  the 
president  of  the  committee,  who  is  an  old  stinkpot.  He  just  got  up  and 
"bucked"  and  snorted.  My,  he  was  mad! 

God  bless  the  committee. 

They  have  turned  us  out,  and  we  are  free,  glory  to  God ! 

We  are  trusting  and  praying  that  God  may  open  up  the  way  for  us  to 
go  to  Zion  to  receive  her  welcome  and  her  teachings. 

God  bless  Dowie — God  bless  the  Christian  Catholic  Church. 

Your  BrotherTn  Jesus'  Name,  REV.  S.  T.  REEVE. 

Freed  from  bondage  October  7,  1899.  Glory  to  God.  (Applause  and 
laughter.) 

Now,  you  Methodists,  you  had  better  sit  still  and  take  your 
medicine  nicely.     (Applause  and  laughter.) 
This  conference  has  said  that  the 

METHODIST   EPISCOPAL    CHURCH    HAS    NOTHING   IN    COMMON    WITH 
THE    TEACHINGS    OF   ZION. 

What  are  the  teachings  of  Zion?  I  will  ask  this  audience, 
thousands  of  whom  have  attended  my  ministry  and  read  the 
literature  which  I  have  produced,  is  not  the  first  teaching  in 
Zion  that  a  man  must  repent  of  his  sins? 

Audience— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Is  it  not  demanded  that  he  shall  also  make 
restitution  to  those  whom  he  has  wronged? 

Audience — "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Is  it  not  demanded  then  that  a  man  shall  have 
faith  in  God  our  Father  through  faith  in  Jesus  Christ  for  the 
forgiveness  of  his  sin? 

Audience — "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Is  it  not  demanded  then  that  he  shall  trust  in 
God  for  all  things  and  live  a  holy  life? 

Audience— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Is  he  not  directed  to  give  his  spirit,  soul  and 
body  wholly  to  God,  and  to  believe  what  God  in  the  ancient 
Dispensation  said,  "I  am  the  Lord  that  healeth  thee  "  ? 

Audience— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — And  that  Jesus  Christ  is  the  same  Saviour, 
Healer,  Cleanser  and  Keeper? 

Audience— "Yes." 


ZION'S   HOLY    WAR.  75 

Dr.  Dowie — And  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  has 
nothing  in  common  with  it?  Very  well,  then,  the  Methodist 
Church  by  saying  that  has  proved  that  it  has  gone  to  the  Devil. 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  is  getting  very  mad;  but 
this  is  not  the  way  to  prevent  the  spread  of  Zion's  Doctrines  in 
the  Methodist  Church.  It  is  the  way  to  increase  Zion;  it  is 
the  way  to  strengthen  Zion;  it  is  the  way  to  make  a  great 
landslide  in  the  Methodist  Church,  which  is  cracked  all  through 
now.  (Amen.) 

THE  ROCK  RIVER  CONFERENCE  MAKES  A  GREAT  BOAST  OVER  A 
GAIN  OF  HALF  A  MEMBER  PER  CHURCH  PER  ANNUM. 

Oh,  how  they  have  boasted  this  last  week  that  at  last  the 
tide  has  turned.  At  their  conference  a  year  ago  they  reported 
a  loss  of  one  thousand  members.  At  the  conference  a  few 
days  ago  they  reported  a  gain  of  one  thousand  three  hundred, 
and  now  they  shout,  "Look!  What  a  splendid  result!" 

What  is  the  result? 

If  their  figures  are  to  believed — and  I  say  boldly  I  do  not 
believe  them,  and  I  have  good  reason  for  saying  so — but  if  the 
figures  are  to  be  believed,  they  have  gained  exactly  three  hun- 
dred members  in  two  years. 

That  is  one  hundred  and  fifty  members  per  annum  in  the 
whole  conference.  I  am  informed  that  there  are  three  hundred 
churches  in  that  conference.  Each  church,  therefore,  has 
gained,  on  an  average,  exactly  half  a  member  a  year,  and  they 
are  whooping  with  delight.  (Applause  and  laughter.) 

Half  a  member  a  year!  It  takes  a  church,  with  its  board 
of  management,  its  Epworth  League,  its  "exhausters"  (laugh- 
ter), and  all  its  various  agencies,  oyster  suppers  included 
(laughter),  a  whole  year  to  make  half  a  member!  (Applause 
and  laughter.)  Then  they  finish  him  off  in  the  second  year. 
(Laughter.)  It  is  ridiculous  to  call  that  progress. 

Here  is  Zion,  despised  Zion.  In  two  years  and  seven 
months  we  have  baptized  five  thousand  two  hundred  and  thirty. 
We  have  baptized  more  than  two  thousand  a  year  lately. 

We  have  been  growing  in  our  fellowship  for  some  time  at 
considerably  over  one  thousand  members  a  month,  taking  the 
whole  of  our  various  branches  throughout  the  country  and  the 
world.  When  this  Church  was  formed,  on  February  22,  1896, 
we  had  less  than  five  hundred  members.  Today  we  have  more 
than  thirty  thousand.  Thank  God  for  that.  (Amen.) 

Now  this  Methodist  Church  sets  itself  up  and  says  it  has 
"nothing  in  common"  with  Zion.  I  believe  it.  (Laughter.) 

ZION'S    RECORD    AS    AN    INSTRUMENT    IN    GOD's    HANDS. 

Zion  has  baptized  within  the  past  few  years  more  than  two 
thousand  ex-Roman  Catholics,  thanks  be  to  God,  but  Metho- 
dism has  "nothing  in  common  "  with  that. 


76  ZION'S   HOLY   WAR. 

Zion  has  brought  thousands  out  of  darkness  into  light,  out 
of  sin  and  Satan  to  God,  out  of  sickness  into  health,  out  of 
unhappy  lives  into  happy  lives,  and  planted  happy  homes,  has 
she  not? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Zion's  work  has  increased  the  prosperity  of 
the  people.  Drunkards  and  harlots  have  been  won  to  God. 
We  have  a  Home  of  Hope,  which  is  constantly  filled  with 
from  fifteen  to  twenty  women,  and  a  number  of  their  babies. 
We  have  baptized  more  than  twenty  out  of  that  Home  of  Hope 
within  the  last  six  months.  They  were  won  to  God  from  the 
deepest  depths  of  sin.  We  have  restored  them  to  their  fami- 
lies and  their  friends,  and  their  mothers  and  their  fathers,  and 
their  God.  Methodism  has  "nothing  in  common"  with  that, 
has  it? 

Audience — "  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Then  where  is  Methodism?  Is  it  on  God's 
side,  or  the  Devil's  side? 

Audience— "On  the  Devil's." 

Dr.  Dowie— I  will  accept  the  issue.  I  will  declare  that,  as 
an  ecclesiastical  organism,  Methodism  has  gone  to  the  Devil. 

A  Church  which  can  produce  only  one  member  per  church 
in  its  conference  for  two  years  has  no  right  to  exist. 

No  man  living  would  invest  his  capital  with  a  return  of  one- 
half  of  one  per  cent  per  annum. 

He  would  know  that  his  business  had  gone  to  the  bow- 
wows. (Laughter.) 

I  accept  the  War  against  apostate  Methodism:  for  "the 
battle  is  the  Lord's." 

A  sweet  little  girl  came  on  the  platform  just  now  and  held 
a  dollar  in  her  hand.  She  said,  "  For  you,  Dr.  Dowie."  I  kissed 
her  and  asked  what  for?  She  said,  "For  de  Holy  War." 
(Applause.) 

Even  Zion  s  little  children  rejoice  in  this  Holy  War. 

We  are  in  this  Holy  War,  and,  thanks  be  to  God,  we  are 
not  in  it  for  three  months  only. 

WE  ARE  IN  IT  TO  THE  END  OF  THE  WAR. 

We  are  having  a  special  three  months  before  the  year  ends, 
but  after  the  year  is  ended  we  will  carry  the  War  into  that 
apostate  Methodist  Church,  which  drives  out  of  its  ministry 
and  its  membership  men  against  whose  moral  and  spiritual 
character  there  is  no  charge.  They  were  driven  out  simply 
because  they  conscientiously  believed  what  Zion  taught,  and 
circulated  a  few  tracts,  and  a  few  copies  of  LEAVES  OF  HEAL- 
ING. There  is  the  liberty  of  Methodism  !  What  liberty  has  it? 

If  these  men  had  been  Mah-hah-bones  and  had  been  to 
banquets  of  Masons  and  gotten  drunk  and  were  gluttons,  there 
would  have  been  nothing  said  about  it. 


ZION'S   HOLY    WAR.  77 

If  they  had  been  like  a  distinguished  member  of  their  book 
concern  in  Cincinnati,  a  taker  of  a  bribe  of  one  hundred 
and  eighty  dollars,  there  would  have  been  nothing  said 
about  it. 

If  they  had  been  like  another  taker  of  a  bribe  in  connection 
with  the  publishing  of  a  hymn-book,  there  would  have  been 
nothing  said  about  it. 

If  they  had  been  like  another  who  was  recently  praised  in 
this  city,  but  was  driven  out  of  his  Church  for  immorality, 
whose  wife  is  living  apart  from  him,  who  is  today  prominent  in 
the  ministry,  there  would  have  been  nothing  said  about  it. 

But  these  men  in  California  who  have  been  expelled  from 
membership  and  office  for  the  alleged  crime  of  spreading 
"Dowie  Literature"  are  living  good  and  holy  lives,  and  yet 
they  are  driven  out  of  the  ministry,  for  the  Methodist  Church 
has  nothing  in  common  with  repentance,  with  faith,  with  heal- 
ing, with  holiness,  with  salvation,  with  anything  that  belongs 
to  God,  unless  it  will  at  the  same  time  benefit  Methodism. 

It  is  no  longer  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

CALL  IT  THE  MASONIC  EPISCOPAL  CHURCH. 

Friends,  Zion  is  at  war.  Thank  God  for  this  opportunity 
of  pouring  a  little  hot  shot  into  that  miserable  Mah-hah-bone 
Methodist  community.  Vast  numbers  of  excellent  Christians 
are  still  in  that  Church. 

May  God  destroy  the  organization  and  save  the  people. 
(Amen.) 

They  are  wounded  and  being  carried  off  the  battlefield. 
(Applause  and  laughter.) 

They  are  being  wounded  in  all  directions,  and  the  Devil  is 
carrying  them  out. 

In  the  Northwestern  Christian  Advocate  of  September  6th, 
printed  in  this  city,  in  a  bitter  article  headed  "As  to  Dowie," 
it  says : 

The  world  is  full  of  invalids,  sickness  and  suffering.  Some  people  go 
to  ignorant  doctors ;  some  go  to  utter  quacks ;  some  summon  good  doctors, 
but  are  unwilling  to  await  the  gradual  cure  of  diseases  which  are  inherited, 
or  have  taken  possession  of  their  bodies  during  years  of  violation  of  health- 
conditions;  some  suffer  from  ills  which  are  complicated  by  this  or  that 
manifestation  of  hysteria,  and  others  have  become  addicted  to  the  habitual 
consumption  of  quack  medicines  whose  advertisement  has  become  a  science 
and  whose  profits  breed  millionaires. 

That  cannot  apply  to  me,  for  I  have  never  had  a  single 
advertisement  for  any  of  these  things  in  LEAVES  OF  HEAL- 
ING. 

But  their  own  mouthpiece  is  their  own  condemnation:  for 
this  Masonic  Episcopal  Methodist  paper,  which  is  speaking 
against  quack  advertisements,  prints  many  of  them.  I  will 
read  to  you  some  advertisements  which  appeared  on  Septem- 


7  8  Z ION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

her  6th,  in  this  very  same  issue  of  the  Northwestern  Christian 
Advocate. 

ADVERTISEMENTS   OF   QUACK   MEDICINES    IN   A   METHODIST   PAPER. 

All  listen  and  see  what  they  advertise: 

CANCER,  SALT  RHEUM,  RHEUMATISM,  PILES, 
And  all  blood  diseases  cured  by  fluid  and  solid  extract  of  RED  CLOVER 
BLOSSOMS.  D.  NEEDHAM'S  SONS, 

17  Inter  Ocean  Building,  Chicago. 

Is  that  not  a  quack  business? 

CANCERS  CURED. 

The  absorption  process  a  conceded  success.  Scarcely  a  failure  in  six- 
teen years.  No  knife.  No  caustic.  No  blood.  No  pain.  Write  Dr.  Hess, 
of  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  for  particulars  and  references.  For  cancer  of  the 
breast,  if  not  broken  out,  treatment  can  be  sent. 

TRIAL  PACKAGE  FREE! 

If  any  reader,  suffering  from  rheumatism,  will  write  to  me,  I  will  send 
them  (free  of  cost)  a  trial  package  of  a  simple  and  harmless  remedy  which 
cured  me  and  thousands  of  others,  among  them  cases  of  over  forty  years' 
standing.  This  is  an  honest  remedy  that  you  can  test  before  you  part  with 
your  money.  Address  JOHN  A.  SMITH, 

204  Summerfield  Church  Building,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 
Red,  Rough  Hands  and  Wrists  cured  and  kept  soft  while  you  work  by 
SHEGOCKO,  or  money  back,  2$c  and  5oc.    Trial,  loc  for  postage  and 
package.     Live  canvassers  wanted. 

SHEGOCKO  Co.,  Sta.  P,  Chicago,  111. 

THIS  WILL  INTEREST  MANY. 

F.  W.  Parkhurst,  the  Boston  Publisher,  says  that  if  any  one  who  is 
afflicted  with  rheumatism  in  any  form,  or  neuralgia,  will  send  their  address 
to  him  at  Box  1501,  Boston,  Mass.,  he  will  direct  them  to  a  perfect  cure. 
He  has  nothing  to  sell  or  give,  only  tells  you  how  he  was  cured.  Hundreds 
have  tested  it  with  success. 

The  next  thing  is: 

NO  FAITH  CURE 

ABOUT  STUART'S  DYSPEPSIA  TABLETS. 
Then  there  is  a  half  column  of  that. 

Honor  is  Purchased  By  Deeds  we  Do. 

HOOD'S  SARSAPARILLA. 
And: 

PARKER'S  HAIR  BALSAM. 

SWIFT'S  PREMIUM  HAMS.     . 
And: 
Wesley  Hospital — Curable  and  non-contagious  diseases. 

SCIENCE  OF  RELIGION, 

OPEN  COURT  PUBLISHING  CO. 

That  is  an  ungodly  and  bad  book. 

Just  Published. 

THE  PSYCHOLOGY  OF  REASONING. 

By  Alfred  Binet. 
Another  bad  book. 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  79 

And  then :  A  sermon  on  "  The  Exaltation  of  Christ,"  by  Dr. 
So-and-so,  and  "the  members  were  uplifted."  That  sermon 
was  preached  by  a  man  who  had  to  be  removed  from  an 
M.  E.  Church  in  this  city  because  of  his  wicked  conduct. 

The  fact  of  the  matter  is  this,  they  who  are  saying  these 
things  have  their  papers  full  of  these  quack  advertisements 
while  they  write  these  foolish  articles  about  Zion. 

ZION     HAS     NOT    TAKEN    FROM     THE    WORLD     ONE     SINGLE     PENNY. 

During  the  whole  five  years  that  we  have  printed  LEAVES 
OF  HEALING  we  have  not  asked  the  world  to  pay  us  a  single 
cent.  We  have  not  advertised  a  single  thing.  We  have  simply 
told  the  truth  of  God,  and  left  the  paper  to  win  its  own  way. 
The  other  day  we  published  an  edition  of  twenty  thousand  of 
one  of  our  weekly  papers,  and  my  assistant  manager  tells  me 
that  he  will  have  to  publish  practically  twenty  thousand  more 
very  soon.  I  think  we  will  probably  sell  forty  thousands  copies 
of  that  one  edition,  before  it  is  two  months  old. 

We  thank  God  that  after  all,  wicked  as  this  city  and  land 
is,  there  are  thousands  and  tens  of  thousands  who  are  welcom- 
ing the  truth  that  God  is  giving  in  and  through  Zion.  (Amen.) 

I  am  glad  that  the  Methodist  Church  is  proving  what  we 
have  said.  If  they  were  not  proving  it,  we  would  be  found 
false  witnesses. 

"  Pity  'tis,  'tis  true" ;  but  it  is  true  that  the  Methodist  Church 
has  gone  to  the  Devil. 

If  there  is  no  more  need  for  prayer — and  that  is  what  Zion 
is  constantly  engaged  in — and  if  they  are  to  expel  every  one 
who  believes  in  Divine  Healing  and  in  prayer  to  God  as  the 
Healer  of  disease,  why  do  they  not  begin  to  cut  out  of  their 
own  hymn-books  the  hymns  which  teach  Divine  Healing? 

DIVINE    HEALING    IS    TAUGHT    IN    METHODIST    HYMNS. 

Why  do  they  not  throw  out  of  the  Methodist  hymnal, 
"Jesus,  Lover  of  My  Soul"? 

Thou,  O  Christ,  art  all  I  want; 
More  than  all  in  Thee  I  find; 
Raise  the  fallen,  cheer  the  faint, 
Heal  the  sick,  and  lead  the  blind. 

Charles  Wesley  was  not  fit  to  be  a  Methodist  according  to 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  South  Conference. 

He  ought  to  be  condemned.  His  hymn  ought  to  be  thrown 
out,  and  his  memory  ought  to  be  blasted  by  that  conference, 
because  he  said  that  Christ  was  the  Healer  of  His  people. 

They  had  better  throw  out  their  very  first  hymn,  "O  for  a 
Thousand  Tongues  to  Sing,"  the  last  verse  of  which  is: 
Hear  Him,  ye  deaf;  His  praise, 

Ye  dumb,  your  loosened  tongues  employ; 
Ye  blind,  behold  your  Saviour  come ; 
And  leap,  ye  lame,  for  joy. 


80  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

Why  do  they  not  fling  that  out  of  their  hymnal?  Why  do 
they  not  cut  out  of  their  Bibles  the  words: 

I  am  the  Lord  that  healeth  thee. 
I  am  the  Lord,  I  change  not? 

Why  do  they  not  get  a  new  Bible  as  well  as  a  new  hymn- 
book?  They  need  it?  They  had  better  go  to  the  Freemasons, 
and  they  will  get  their  Bible  and  their  hymn-book  there. 

They  will  not  find  any  Christ  in  that  Bible,  and  they  will 
not  find  any  Christ  in  that  hymnal. 

That  is  where  they  have  gone. 

That  Church  is  no  longer  Methodist;  it  is  Masonic. 

It  has  gone  to  the  Devil,  root  and  branch,  and  may  God 
save  the  people  who  are  in  it.  (Amen.) 

REAP,    FOR    THE    HARVEST    OF    THE    EARTH    IS 

OVERRIPE. 


INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight,  profitable  unto  this  people,  and  unto  all  to  whom 
these  words  shall  come,  in  this  and  every  land,  in  this  and  all  the  coming 
time,  for  Jesus'  sake. 

TEXT   FROM    REVELATION    14:15,  l6. 

And  another  angel  came  out  from  the  altar,  he  that  hath  power  over 
fire;  and  he  called  with  a  great  voice  to  him  that  had  the  sharp  sickle,  say- 
ing, Send  forth  thy  sharp  sickle,  and  gather  the  clusters  of  the  vine  of  the 
earth  ;  for  her  grapes  are  fully  ripe. 

And  another  angel  came  out  from  the  Temple,  crying  with  a  great  voice 
to  him  that  sat  on  the  cloud,  Send  forth  thy  sickle  and  reap :  for  the  hour 
to  reap  is  come;  for  the  harvest  of  the  earth  is  overripe. 

Friends,  the  harvest  of  the  earth  is  not  only  ripe,  but  it  is 
overripe. 

You  have  seen  a  harvest  where  the  grain  is  so  ripe  that  it  is 
falling  out  on  the  land,  and  you  have  seen  the  eagerness  of  the 
farmers  to  put  in  their  reapers  and  reap;  for,  if  they  delay, 
much  will  be  lost. 

So  it  is  today. 

We  must  be  Swift  Witnesses,  and  Zion  must  be  a  sharp 
threshing  instrument  having  teeth.  A  sharp  sickle  of  truth 
must  be  used,  for  the  harvest  must  be  fully  and  quickly  gath- 
ered. May  God  make  Zion  to  go  forth  with  tens  of  thousands 
of  sharp  sickles.  (Amen.) 

A  great  many  people  in  this  city  are  saying,  "We  want 
peace." 

If  you  want  Divine  peace,  you  will  only  get  it  by  a  right 
use  of  the  Sword  of  the  Spirit,  which  is  the  Word  of  God. 

Jesus  said: 

I  am  not  come  to  send  peace  on  earth,  but  a  Sword. 

The  Sword  of  the  Spirit  is  the  Word  of  God. 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  8l 

That  is  the  sickle  of  truth,  and  now,  with  the  Word  of  God, 
Zion  must  go  forth  into  the  harvest  fields,  where  there  are  two 
classes  of  people  to  be  met. 

Our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  in  the  passages  which  I  have  quoted 
in  connection  with  the  very  suggestive  cartoon  by  our  Brother 
Champe  in  the  last  issue  of  LEAVES  OF  HEALING,  said: 

The  kingdom  of  heaven  is  likened  unto  a  man  that  sowed  good  seed 
in  his  field:  but  while  men  slept,  his  enemy  came  and  sowed  tares  also 
among  the  wheat,  and  went  away.  But  when  the  blade- sprang  up,  and 
brought  forth  fruit,  then  appeared  the  tares  also.  And  the  servants  of  the 
householder  came  and  said  unto  him,  Sir,  didst  thou  not  sow  good  seed  in 
thy  field?  whence  then  hath  it  tares?  And  he  said  unto  them,  An  enemy 
hath  done  this.  And  the  servants  say  unto  him,  Wilt  thou  then  that  we  go 
and  gather  them  up?  But  he  saith,  Nay;  lest  haply  while  we  gather  up  the 
tares,  ye  root  up  the  wheat  with  them.  Let  both  grow  together  until  the 
harvest:  and  in  the  time  of  the  harvest  I  will  say  to  the  reapers,  Gather  up 
first  the  tares,  and  bind  them  in  bundles  to  burn  them:  but  gather  the 
wheat  into  my  barn. 

When  the  disciples  came  into  the  house  that  night  they 
asked  the  Lord  what  this  parable  of  the  tares  meant,  and,  in 
the  Revised  Version,  this  is  the  reading: 

And  He  answered  and  said,  He  that  soweth  the  good  seed  is  the  Son  of 
man;  and  the  field  is  the  world;  and  the  good  seed,  these  are  the  sons  of 
the  Kingdom;  and  the  tares  are  the  sons  of  the  evil  one;  and  the  enemy 
that  sowed  them  is  the  Devil :  and  the  harvest  is  the  end  of  the  world;  and 
the  reapers  are  angels. 

I  desire  to  make  plain  to  you  what  I  believe  is  going  to 
happen. 

There  are  just  two  classes  of  people  in  this  world. 

The  one  class  is  arrayed  with  God  fighting  the  Devil  and 
all  evil,  and  the  other  is  arrayed  with  the  Devil  fighting  God 
and  all  good. 

Which  side  are  you  on? 

Voices— "God's." 

Dr.  Dowie — 

THE    DUTY    OF  ZION    IS,   FIRST  OF  ALL,  TO   ROOT  UP  THESE   TARES. 

These  tares  are  the  children  of  the  wicked  one.  God  is 
determined  to  have  every  wicked  person  either  into  His  King- 
dom or  out  of  this  world. 

There  is  one  thing  certain:  the  wicked  are  going  to  be 
burned  by  the  fire  of  their  own  evil  passions. 

There  is  another  thing  certain:  Zion  must  go  into  this  field 
and  take  out  these  tares  that  the  Devil  has  sown. 

We  have  to  take  these  Methodist  tares  out  of  the  Church. 

We  have  to  take  these  false  doctrines  out  of  the  Church. 

Every  man  who,  in  the  Church  of  God,  professes  to  be  a 
Christian  and  is  not  a  Christian,  has  to  be  taken  out  and  shown 
to  all  the  world  as  a  humbug,  a  cheat  and  a  hypocrite,  and 
flung  into  the  fire. 

That  is  just  what  has  to  be  done  with  him. 


82  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

It  is  a  very  hard  thing  to  say,  but  that  is  the  mission  of 
Zion. 

But  unto  you  that  fear  My  Name  shall  the  Sun  of  Righteousness  arise 
with  healing  in  His  wings;  arid  ye  shall  go  forth  and  gambol  as  calves  of 
the  stall.  And  ye  shall  tread  down  the  wicked;  for  they  shall  be  ashes 
under  the  soles  of  your  feet  in  the  Day  that  I  do  make,  saith  Jehovah  of 
Hosts. 

The  wicked  must  be  trodden  down. 

We  have  to  tread  down  the  betrayer  of  the  Christ  of  God 
in  His  nominal  Church.  We  have  to  tear  them  up  as  well  as 
tread  them  down,  and  fling  them  into  the  fire. 

We  have  to  take  every  apostasy  and  fling  it  into  the  fire, 
and  then  we  have  to  gather  in  the  sons  of  the  Kingdom  into 
the  garner  of  God. 

The  fight  is  on. 

It  is  a  fight  against  evil  men. 

It  is  a  fight  against  evil  women. 

It  is  a  fight  against  evil  spirits. 

It  is  a  fight  against  the  powers  of  evil  on  earth  and  every 
fiend  in  hell. 

It  is  a  fight  in  which  every  angel  in  heaven  is  on  our  side. 

It  is  a  fight  in  which  every  honest  and  good  man  on  earth 
will  yet  fight  with  Zion. 

It  is  a  fight  to  a  finish,  because  this  War  is  going  to  come 
to  an  end.  It  is  going  to  come  to  an  end  by  the  establishment 
of  the  Kingdom  of  God  amongst  the  rebellious  nations  of  the 
earth.  May  God  hasten  the  day!  (Amen.) 

In  this  harvest  field  we  have  to  go  forth 

WITHOUT  HATRED  TO  ANY  BUT  WITH  LOVE  FOR  ALL. 

A  man  does  not  hate  his  field,  when  he  tears  out  the  weeds 
to  allow^the  grain  and  the  wheat  to  grow. 

A  m'an  does  not  hate  his  garden,  when  he  goes  into  his 
garden  and  takes  out  the  weeds  and  helps  the  flowers  and  fruits 
to  grow. 

The  weeds  must  be  taken  away.  In  the  orchard  every  para- 
site in  the  tree  must  be  destroyed  and  everything  that  would 
affect  the  tree  must  be  killed. 

There  is  a  time  to  kill  as  well  as  to  make  alive,  and  the 
parasites  of  disease  in  spiritual,  in  psychical  and  in  physical 
life  must  be  destroyed,  or  else  this  world  will  wholly  go  to 
hell. 

This  is  the  work  which  Zion  is  about.  Zion  makes  no  pre- 
tenses of  being  friendly  to  the  World,  the  Flesh  and  the  Devil. 

We  are  at  War,  and  those  who  are  at  War  destroy  the 
enemy's  camp.  They  destroy  the  enemy's  men.  .  They  destroy 
the  enemy's  organization.  They  set  on  fire  everything  that 
they  can.  They  keep  at  it  until  the  enemy  surrenders  or 
perishes. 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  83 

In  this  War  of  the  Hosts  of  Heaven  against  Hell,  we  are  at 
war  with  the  sorcerer,  and  the  adulterer,  and  the  false  swearer, 
and  those  that  oppress  the  hireling  in  his  wages,  and  the  widow 
and  the  fatherless,  and  they  that  turn  aside  the  stranger  from 
his  right,  and  that  fear  not  Me,  saith  the  Lord  of  Hosts. 

Zion  is  at  war  with  every  form  of  evil.  We  must  fight  it 
within  ourselves;  within  our  homes;  within  our  workshops; 
within  our  cities,  and  within  the  Nation;  and  we  must  tell  a 
rebellious  world  that  they  can  only  get  mercy  upon  one  condi- 
tion, and  that  is  unconditional  surrender  to  God. 

"Oh,  Doctor,  I  no  not  like  to  hear  you  talk  like  this. 

"Doctor,  have  you  not  any  molasses  left?     (Laughter.) 
'.    "Doctor,  have  you  not  any  soft  soap? 

"Doctor,  have  you  not  any  lollypop? 

"Doctor,  have  you  not  something  sweet?" 

Friends,  I  am  entirely  through  with  theological  candy 
stores.  I  feel  that  if  many  of  you  who  are  in  Zion  today  had 
been  told  the  truth  thirty  or  forty  years  ago,  you  would  have 
been  working  for  God  all  that  time  instead  of  serving  the  Devil. 

Is  not  that  true? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — I  am  going  right  on  with  this  plain  talk,  because 
you  know  that  is  what  is  needed  in  Chicago  and  everywhere. 

The  harvest  of  the  earth  is  overripe. 

Let  us  go  in  and  reap  it.  Let  us  go  in  and  save  the  sinful, 
and  the  sick,  and  the  sorrowful  who  will  repent  and  turn  to 
God.  These  are  the  sons  of  the  Kingdom. 

Oh  God,  help  us  to  tear  out  the  tares  and  throw  them  in 
bundles  into  the  fire.  (Amen.) 

I  am  not  the  author  of  this  prayer,  for  it  was  inspired  by 
Jesus,  who  said: 

The  good  seed,  these  are  the  sons  of  the  Kingdom;  and  the  "tares  are 
the  sons  of  the  evil  one ;  and  the  enemy  that  sowed  them  is  the  Devil. 

I  am  not  the  author  of  it.  I  am  only  giving  you  the  dis- 
tinct interpretation  of  Jesus  Christ. 

It  seems  hard  that  anybody  should  perish,  but  it  is  better  for 
them  to  perish  now,  and  for  mercy  to  seek  and  find  them  in 
the  hereafter,  than  for  this  world  to  be  continually  cursed  by 
the  presence  of  those  who  deliberately  reject  God  and  will  not 
serve  Him. 

That  man  or  that  nation  who  will  not  hear  the  prophet  of 
God  who  speaks  for  God  shall  perish. 

The  time  has  come. 

THE   VOICE    OF    CHRIST    IN    RINGING   THROUGH    THE    EARTH. 

Those  who  are  in  the  graves  are  hearing  His  Voice  and  are 
coming  forth.  Many  are  rising  up  to  praise  Him  and  serve 
Him,  to  love  Him,  who  have  been  in  sin  and  in  the  bondage 
of  evil  all  their  lives. 


84  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

I  pray  you  now  today  to  surrender  to  God  your  spirits,  your 
souls,  and  your  bodies.  All  do  it  this  minute. 

CALL. 

Every  one  of  you  who  have  already  done  this,  and  all  who 
want  to  do  it,  stand  to  your  feet  and  make  confession  and  con- 
secration. 

Stand  up  and  give  yourselves  to  your  God.  (With  scarce 
an  exception  the  entire  audience  arose.) 

PRAYER    OF    CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me 
power  to  do  right.  Give  me  power  to  overcome.  Take  the  evil  out  of  my 
heart.  Take  all  evil  appetite  and  impure  desire  away  and  make  me  clean. 
Make  me  a  son  of  the  Kingdom.  (Women,  say,  Make  me  a  daughter  of 
the  Kingdom.)  Give  me  Thy  Holy  Spirit  that  I  may  be  pure;  that  I  may 
be  a  part  of  the  great  harvest  that  is  being  reaped  and  taken  into  the 
heavenly  garner.  Give  me  Thy  Holy  Spirit  that  I  may  do  my  part  in  bring- 
ing in  from  the  fields  of  sin  ^11  I  can  of  the  good  and  honest  and  true- 
hearted  who  receive  the  Word  of  God,  and  are  determined  to  obey  it. 
Help  me,  Oh  God,  to  live  a  good  life,  praising  Thee,  praising  Thy  dear 
Son;  obeying  Thee  in  all  things,  for  Jesus'  sake.  Amen.  (All  repeat  the 
prayer,  clause  by  clause,  after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  you  mean  it? 
Voices— "Yes." 
Dr.  Dowie — Will  you  live  it? 
Voices—"  Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Then  sing  "Sin  No  More." 
After  the  singing  of  this  song  the  meeting  was  closed  with 
the  following 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil.  And  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  dp  it;  the 
grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you,  bless 
you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


ZION'S    HOLY    WAR. 


PRELUDE— SOME  INCIDENTS  OF  THE  HOLY  WAR.    SERMON— 
ZION'S  WITNESS  AGAINST  THE  ADULTERERS. 


THE  Three  Months'  Holy  War  which  Zion  is  now  waging 
against  the  concentrated  hosts  of  hell  in  Chicago  is  being 
fought  especially  along  the  lines  laid  down  in  the  fifth  verse 
of  the  third  chapter  of  the  Book  of  the  Prophet  Malachi,  and 
is,  essentially,  aWarfpr  God  against  the  "sorcerers,  and  against 
the  adulterers,  and  ^against  false  swearers;  and  against  those 
that  oppress  the  hireling  in  his  wages,  the  widow,  and  the 
fatherless,  and  that  turn  aside  the  stranger  from  his  right,  and 
fear  not  the  Lord  of  Hosts." 

Zion's  witnessing  against  the  sorcerer  has  been  continual 
and  unrelenting,  during  the  years  of  her  existence,  and  the 
General  Overseer,  for  many  years  previous  to  the  formation  of 
the  Christian  Catholic  Church,  spoke  in  no  uncertain  terms 
against  this  particular  device  of  the  Devil  for  the  damning  of 
mankind.  Yet,  since  the  opening  of  the  Holy  War,  this  wit- 
nessing has  been  more  vigorous  and  more  effective,  as  the 
howls  of  pain  in  the  ranks  of  the  sorcerers  indicates. 

On  Lord's  Day,  October  22,  1899,  the  opening  of  the  fourth 
week  of  the  War,  the  General  Overseer  began  special  witness- 
ing against  the  Adulterers. 

The  events  of  the  third  week  of  the  War  had  wonderfully 
supplemented  the  faithful  work  of  Zion's  Seventies  in  calling 
the  attention  of  the  people  of  Chicago  to  Zion's  Onward  Move- 
ment, and  the  splendid  audience,  which  nearly  filled  the  vast 
Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  gave  every  indication  of  the  most 
lively  interest. 

Among  those  present  were  about  two  score  of  medical 
students  from  the  West  Side  Medical  Colleges,  who,  awed  no 
doubt  by  the  unexpected  array  of  the  thousands  of  Zion's 
members  and  friends,  listened  respectfully  to  the  General 
Overseer's  scathing,  sarcastic  description  of  the  disgraceful 
rioting  which  they  and  their  fellows  participated  in  at  the 

War-85 


86 


ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 


ZION'S  HOLY    WAR.  87 

West  Side  Zion  Tabernacle  on  the  previous  Wednesday  even- 
ing, and  to  his  fearless  throwing  down  the  gauntlet  to  fair  and 
gentlemanly  debate  on  the  merits  of  Man's  Way  of  Healing 
versus  God's  Way  of  Healing.  It  is  needless  to  add  that  the 
challenge  was  not  then  accepted,  nor  has  it  been  in  the  nearly 
two  weeks  which  have  since  elapsed. 

After  summarily  disposing  of  the  ludicrously  impotent  froth- 
ings  of  a  deposed  Elder,  the  General  Overseer  began  the  forc- 
ing home,  with  tremendous  power,  of  the  mighty  truths  of  God's 
Word  concerning  the  fearful  sin  of  adultery.  The  burden  of  this, 
the  first  of  the  series  on  this  subject,  was  a  witnessing  against 
the  adulterous  sins  fostered  by  the  divorce  courts.  A.  w.  N. 


Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  Lord's  Day  Afternoon,  October  22,  1899. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing  Hymn  No.  44. 

The  Scripture  lesson  was  read  from  Malachi  third  and  from 
the  Gospel  of  St.  John,  eighth  chapter. 

Prayer  was  offered  by  Dr.  Dowie,  at  the  close  of  which  he 
delivered  the  following  prelude: 

SOME  INCIDENTS  OF  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

I  first  of  all  desire  to  thank  God  for  His  goodness  to  us 
during  the  past  week.  I  need  not  recall  to  you  matters  which 
have  been  a  topic  of  very  widespread  interest  in  the  city,  and 
have  filled  the  newspapers  to  such  an  extent  that  I  notice  fre- 
quently lately  that  Dowie  and  Zion  have  been  placed  before 
the  war  in  South  Africa.  (Laughter.)  It  is  quite  apparent  to 
any  mind,  I  suppose,  that  the  "Holy  War7'  in  Chicago  is  very 
much  more  interesting  to  the  people  than  the  carnal  warfare  in 
the  Transvaal. 

First,  I  hold,  before  the  whole  city,  and  before  the  whole 
of  America  and  the  world,  the  University  of  Chicago  and  the 
University  of  Illinois  responsible  for  the  recent  riotous  conduct 
of  students  whose  colleges  are  affiliated  with  both  these  Uni- 
versities. 

I  hold  the  professors  and  teachers  in  these  colleges  guilty 
of  conspiracy  in  permitting  notices  to  be  posted  and  encourag- 
ing the  young  men  to  act  in  the  riotous  manner  which  has 
brought  down  upon  them  the  batons  of  the  police.  I  charge 
these  professors  and  doctors  with  being  arrant  cowards.  They 
are  afraid  to  deal  with  this  matter  in  a  manner  which  brave 
and  honest  and  intelligent  men  will  always  adopt.  The  argu- 
ments they  use  are  the  arguments  which  they  use  continually 
in  their  professions:  namely,  filthy  drugs.  They  desire  to 


88  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

stupify  the  people,  even  in  public  meeting  places,  and  to  use 
the  murderous  knife  which  is  so  often  in  their  hands. 

I  give  the  challenge  here  today,  in  the  plainest  possible  way. 

CHALLENGE   TO   THE   MEDICAL    PROFESSION    OF    CHICAGO. 

This  is  a  matter  not  for  bludgeons,  not  for  stones,  not  for 
iodoform  and  assafetida.  This  matter  is  not  to  be  decided  by 
yells  and  by  whooping. 

Let  the  doctors  of  the  medical  schools  select  any  professor; 
or,  if  they  think  the  professors  are  not  eloquent  and  bold 
enough  to  talk,  let  them  select  any  parson  in  the  ministry  of 
this  city,  and  let  the  matter  be  decided  by  fair  argument  before 
the  people.  I  challenge  them  to  debate  this  question:  Which 
is  the  best,  Divine  Healing  or  Human  Healing?  (Applause.) 

Let  them  remove  this  question  from  the  region  of  disgrace- 
ful and  riotous  proceedings,  and  let  them  move  it  to  the  public 
platform.  In  this  place,  which  holds  three  thousand  three 
hundred  persons,  they  can  have  the  platform.  I  will  give  to 
the  man  who  debates  with  me  an  equal  length  of  time.  He 
shall  have  half  an  hour  or  whatever  may  be  decided,  and  I  half 
an  hour.  Then  we  will  fight  this  thing  out  upon  the  ground  of 
fact,  upon  the  ground  of  wise  and  intellectual  conflict;  not 
upon  such  a  base  ground  as  that  to  which  they  have  taken  it 
—the  ground  of  anarchy. 

Can  anything  be  settled  by  iodoform  or  assafetida? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Can  it  be  settled  by  stones  thrown  at  a  Zion 
Tabernacle. 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — If  there  is  anything  to  be  settled,  can  it  not  be 
brought  to  the  test?  I  am  willing,  if  they  will  not  accept  this 
platform,  to  pay  one-half  the  cost,  and  take  the  Auditorium. 
You  put  up  your  Goliath,  and  let  him  come  up  there  with  all 
his  armor.  (Applause.)  You  bring  all  that  can  be  said  for 
medical  science,  and  then  let  me  present  the  facts.  You 
bring  the  victories  that  you  have  won.  You  can  bring  your  wit- 
nesses. Then  let  me  bring  my  witnesses.  (Amen.  Applause.) 

That  is  fair,  is  it  not? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Of  course  it  is. 

COMMISERATION     FOR    THE    DECEIVED    AND    MISGUIDED    MEDICAL 

STUDENTS. 

I  am  very  sorry  for  any  of  these  young  men  who  came  to 
grief  as  they  did.  Nothing  grieved  me  more  than  that  the 
police,  who  certainly  did  their  duty  excellently  and  well, 
should  have  been  compelled  to  have  forced  some  sense  into 
their  heads  by  breaking  them.  (Laughter.)  I  am  sorry  for 


ZION'S  HOLY    WAR.  89 

that.  I  am  very  sorry,  because  the  mothers,  the  fathers,  of 
these  boys,  who  have  been  sent  to  this  city  to  be  educated  at 
much  self-sacrifice,  will  grieve  that  their  sons  have  been  guilty 
of  such  shameful  conduct. 

I  blame  the  professors  who  permitted  them  to  put  up  these 
notices,  and  to  hold  meetings,  and  to  conspire.  For  this  I 
blame  the  faculties  of  the  Universities,  as  well  as  the  Colleges 
under  their  control,  for  not  lifting  a  finger  or  saying  a  word  to 
keep  their  students  back.  They  rather  tacitly  helped  in  these 
disgraceful,  riotous  proceedings.  I  charge  them  before  all 
America  as  being  disgraceful  cowards. 

We,  thank  God,  went  to  our  work  in  the  West  Side  Zion 
Tabernacle  and  did  it.  The  boys  who  were  inside  got  on 
exceedingly  well  with  us,  except  now  and  then  they  would  rub 
their  feet  upon  the  floor.  When  I  suggested  that  all  their 
brains  were  in  their  boots,  they  stopped.  (Applause  and 
laughter.) 

The  boys  and  I  got  on  well.  I  spoke  to  them  for  nearly 
two  hours,  and  was  not  interrupted  five  continuous  minutes, 
was  I? 

A  Voice—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — I  had  a  capital  time  with  the  boys,  and  when 
they  went  away  I  invited  them  to  come  again. 

I  like  the  boys.  I  can  remember  when  I  was  a  boy  myself, 
and  a  student  at  college,  and  a  member  of  a  university.  I  can 
remember  a  good  many  things  which  happened  at  that  time; 
but  I  never  saw  such  foolish  proceedings  upon  the  part  of  per- 
sons who  are  supposed  to  have  some  education  and  gentleman- 
liness. 

When  they  sneered  at  that  remark  of  mine  the  other 
night,  I  apologized  to  them  for  even  having  supposed  that  they 
had  any  education  or  even  gentlemanliness.  The  boys  saw  the 
point  and  had  some  fun  over  that. 

But  we  got  on  very  well.  It  was  the  boys  who  were  not 
inside,  who  were  not  under  my — what  do  they  call  it?— 
hypnotic  influence.  (Laughter.)  These  were  the  rioters. 

I  am  perfectly  sure  that  I  have  never  been  a  speaker  to  send 
people  asleep,  have  I? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — They  brought  with  them  iodoform,  and  things 
of  that  kind  which  put  people  to  sleep. 

I  did  not  appear  in  the  courts  against  any  of  these  young 
men  nor  any  of  the  older  men.  I  did  not  ask  for  any  vengeance 
to  be  taken  upon  them.  I  did  nothing  whatever  in  the  way  of 
retaliation.  I  repaired  all  the  windows,  a  dozen  or  more,  which 
had  been  smashed.  I  had  the  place  cleaned  and  everything 
put  in  order,  and  we  had  a  most  delightful  service  this  morn- 
ing. 


90  Z ION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

But  Zion  has  "come  to  the  same  conclusion  that  Inspector 
John  T.  Shea  has,  that  the  time  has  come  when 

THE   STRONG  ARM    OF   THE  LAW  MUST    BE    INVOKED  TO  PRESERVE 

PUBLIC    PEACE. 

The  right  of  free  speech  which  is  being  denied  by  the  uni- 
versities on  the  North  and  West  Sides  of  this  city,  shall  be 
maintained  by  the  citizens  and  by  their  representatives. 
(Applause.) 

Once  more  these  universities  will  have  to  be  taught  a  lesson 
that  universities  have  had  to  be  taught  so  often  by  the  common 
people:  that  the  cultivated  men  have  to  be  kept  in  order  by 
the  good,  sound  common-sense  of  the  people.  (Applause.) 

It  was  not  the  Universities  of  Yale  or  Harvard  which  put 
down  slavery.  It  was  not  the  Universities  of  Yale  or  Harvard 
which  found  the  great  man  who  led  and  guided  the  Nation 
through  the  stormy  years  of  war  and  darkness  and  tempest. 

It  was  the  common  man,  the  common  man  taken  from  this 
State,  Abraham  Lincoln  (loud  applause),  the  rail-splitter  and 
country  lawyer,  who  never  entered  a  university  and  never  had 
any  scholarship. 

These  young  men  have  to  get  some  sense  into  their  heads, 
even  if  they  are  broken.  (Applause.)  But  may  God  grant 
that  their  hearts  may  be  broken,  and  that  their  heads  may  be 
enlightened,  and  that  the  leaders  in  the  universities  may  remem- 
ber that  this  matter  of  Divine  Healing  is  not  going  to  be  settled 
by  conspiracies  against  our  life  and  our  liberty.  (Amen.) 

If  I  am  wrong,  surely  they  have  many  on  their  side.  They 
have  had  the  whole  field  for  all  these  centuries.  Surely,  with 
all  the  ministers  on  their  side,  with  all  the  newspapers  on  their 
side;  surely,  with  all  the  backing  of  these  great  and  mighty 
pundits  upon  both  sides  of  the  city,  they  might  leave  free 
speech  to  one  poor,  little  man.  (Applause.) 

MOB   VIOLENCE    IS   A   PRACTICAL    CONFESSION    OF   WEAKNESS. 

It  shows  how  terrified  they  are.  They  feel  that  their 
"craft"  is  in  danger. 

The  challenge  has  gone  out.  Let  me  see  whether  they 
will  accept  it.  I  will  be  willing  to  debate  that  matter  on  the 
stage  of  the  Auditorium  with  any  delegate  whom  they  may 
call  to  represent  them.  I  will  take  it  for  one  night,  for  two 
nights,  for  three  nights,  or  for  a  whole  week  if  they  like. 
When  we  have  gotten  through  I  think  I  shall  have  completely 
routed  them.  (Applause.) 

If  I  do  not,  if  I  fail,  if  I  am  completely  discomfited  in  that 
great  fight,  will  they  not  have  a  glorious  victory? 

If  they  want  to  bring  their  witnesses  to  prove  how  success- 
ful these  gentlemen  are  in  treating  the  sick,  I  shall  be  very 
happy  to  give  one  whole  night  to  their  witnesses,  and  I  will 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  QI 

take  another  night  to  mine,  or  I  will  take  them  the  same 
night. 

I  will  take  mine  now.  All  who  have  been  healed  through 
faith  in  Jesus  Christ  in  this  meeting,  stand.  (About  two  thou- 
sand arose.) 

That  is  a  very  goodly  company.  I  am  quite  sure  it  must  be 
fully  two  thousand. 

I  will  say  concerning  the  challenge  I  have  made,  that  I  am 
willing  to  pay  one-half  the  expenses  if  they  will  pay  the  other 
half.  I  am  willing  to  take  one-half  of  the  tickets  and  give 
them  away  to  my  friends,  and  they  can  give  the  other  half  to 
their  friends,  or  we  might  charge  just  enough  to  cover  the  cost 
of  the  hall.  I  will  be  very  glad  to  arrange  the  matter  in  any 
way  that  they  please  in  that  respect.  Let  them  bring  forth 
their  Goliath,  and  let  us  have  a  real  good  old-time  fight  with 
the  champion  of  these  Philistines. 

Now  concerning  another  thing. 

THE  FABLE  OF  THE  MICE  AND  THE  BUZZ-SAW. 

Have  you  ever  seen  a  great  big  buzz-saw  at  work? 

Voices—"  Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Have  you  ever  seen  it  plow,  like  a  "sharp 
threshing  instrument  having  teeth,"  through  a  great  big  log  of 
timber?  Do  you  not  think  that  Zion-at-work  is  something 
like  a  buzz-saw? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  you  ever  see  a  lot  of  little  mice  running 
about  a  saw-bed?  Did  you  ever  see  some  of  the  mice  get 
upon  the  log?  Did  you  ever  hear  one  of  the  mice  whose  name 
is  Fair  say,  "Buzz-saw,  stop!  If  you  don't  stop,  I'll  bite  you"? 
(Applause  and  laughter.)  Don't  you  think  it  might  be  bad 
for  the  mouse?  Do  you  think  the  General  Overseer  will  stop 
the  buzz-saw? 

That  is  all  I  have  to  say  about  Fair.  (Laughter  and  ap- 
plause.) 

Any  member  of  the  Christian  Catholic  Church  in  this  build- 
ing who  sympathizes  with  George  Armor  Fair,  stand  to  his  or 
her  feet.  (No  one  arose.)  Any  one  in  this  whole  house,  just 
speak  out  and  say  that  you  sympathize  with  him,  and  we  will 
know  just  how  many  sympathizers  he  has.  Any  one  in  this 
house  who  is  a  member  of  the  Christian  Catholic  Church,  stand 
on  your  feet  and  say  you  sympathize.  We  would  protect  you 
whilst  you  spoke.  We  would  like  to  see  you.  Is  there  one? 

All  who  are  absolutely  ashamed  of  his  wicked  conduct, 
stand  to  their  feet.  (As  far  as  could  be  seen,  no  member  of 
the  Church  remained  sitting.) 

Have  you  confidence  in  your  leader  still? 

Audience  (unanimously) — "Yes." 


92  ZSON'S  HOLY  WAR. 

Dr.  Dowie — All  who  say  the  opposite,  say  No.  (No  re- 
sponse.) 

The  wicked  lawyers  who  are  looking  on  can  take  note  of 
that.  (Loud  applause.)  All  the  mice  who  want  to  bite  the 
buzz-saw,  take  note.  (Laughter.) 

I  think  I  shall  let  the  buzz-saw  work  a  little.  Some  of  the 
mice  who  are  always  at  it  are  to  be  found  in  the  Daily  News 
office. 

I  desire  to  call  your  attention  to  one  of  the  innumerable 
lies  of  the  week,  and  let  that  be 

AN    EXCELLENT    CRITERION    OF   THE    DAILY   NEWS'    VERACITY. 

I  will  show  just  what  confidence  you  can  place  in  the  press. 
Lies  innumerable  have  been  told  this  week.  But  one  of  these 
was  told  in  the  greatest  detail,  and  was  a  very  severe  attack 
on  Dr.  Dowie,  according  to  the  enemy. 

I  will  be  quite  fair  to  the  Daily  News,  and  will  read  their 
attack  from  the  clippings  in  my  scrap-book. 

I  have  such  an  interesting  scrap-book.  (Laughter.)  You 
have  not  any  idea  how  much  fun  I  get  out  of  it.  I  have  a  good 
deal  more  fun  than  they  have.  I  have  all  the  fun.  The  other 
fellows  do  not  have  any. 

On  Tuesday,  October  I7th,  there  appeared  in  the  Daily 
News  this  attack.  I  will  read  to  you  the  attack  and  then  I  will 
read  to  you  something  else: 

GENTRY  SCORES  DR.  DOWIE. 


PHYSICIAN   PROMINENT  AMONG   "DIVINE   HEALERS "   CALLS   THE   LEADER 
OF   ZION   A    COUNTERFEIT — SCHEME   IS    MAKING   OF   MONEY. 


Speaker  Declares  That  Dowie  Has   Tried  to  Pile  up  a  Fortune— Makes 
Charges  After  Full  Investigation. 


A  man  who  stands  high  in  the  counsels  of  "  Divine  Healers,"  and  who 
has  hitherto  refused  to  criticise  "  Dr."  John  Alexander  Dowie,  has  for  the 
first  time  publicly  declared  his  belief  that  u  Dr."  Dowie  is  a  counterfeit  and 
a  money-maker. 

Dr.  William  D.  Gentry,  who  is  familiar  with  Dowie's  methods,  and 
practices  "Divine  Healing"  after  a  system  of  his  own,  having  a  mission 
chapel  at  6148  Wentworth  Avenue,  yesterday  denounced  the  methods  of 
"  Dr."  Dowie  as  false  to  all  true  principles  of  healing  according  to  the  Scrip- 
tures, as  quackery  performed  under  pretense  of  Divine  inspiration,  and  as 
inspired  wholly  by  a  desire  for  money-making. 

FORMERLY   A  WELL-KNOWN   DOCTOR. 

The  force  of  Dr.  Gentry's  argument  lies  in  the  fact  that  he  is  believed 
to  be  a  sincere  "divine  healer,"  and  up  to  the  time  he  began  his  present 
work  was  a  well-known  physician.  About  five  years  ago  Dr.  Gentry  was 
attracted  to  a  study  of  Divine  Healing  in  its  different  phases.  He  left  his 
profession,  and  although  Dowie  tried  to  bring  him  under  his  influence,  he 
refused  to  have  anything  to  do  with  the  leader  of  B  Zion." 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  93 

"The  Rev.  John  Alexander  Bowie,"  he  said,  "does  not  possess  the 
power  of  God.  He  is  nothing  more  or  less  than  a  counterfeit.  He  claims 
to  heal  men  by  direct  inspiration  from  on  high,  but  all  the  power  he  pos- 
sesses is  a  sort  of  personal  magnetism,  a  very  cheap  and  common  human 
faculty.  There  are  thousands  of  men  in  this  country  who  could  influence 
people  just  as  powerfully  as  Dowie  and  gain  just  as  infamously  wide  repu- 
tation for  inspiration,  if  they  chose  to  falsify  spiritual  things  in  this  man- 
ner. 

HAS   INVESTIGATED   DOWIE   SYSTEM. 

"  I  know  these  statements  to  be  facts  from  my  own  personal  knowledge. 
I  investigated  the  whole  Dowie  system  from  top  to  bottom.  I  know  the 
system  to  be  rotten.  That  man  is  engaged  in  Divine  Healing  work  solely 
for  personal  gains.  He  is  making  a  fortune  out  of  his  operations,  religious 
and  otherwise.  Any  one  of  sufficient  genius  for  money-making  could  do 
the  same.  He  calls  great  numbers  of  people  together,  holds  them  by  the 
force  of  his  personal  magnetism,  and  then  charges  them  good  prices. 

MONEY-MAKING   THE    MOTIVE. 

"  It  is  a  counterfeit  system  all  through.  It  is  organized  and  conducted 
solely  to  make  a  fortune — and  Dowie  has  made  one,  how  large  I  dare  not 
say.  And  this  man  pretends  to  heal  through  God.  The  Lord  preserve  us 
from  all  such  counterfeits  of  the  truth." 

The  calm  and  carefully  prepared  discourse  of  Dr.  Gentry  had  deep 
effect  upon  his  audience  and  expressions  such  as  "That's  so!"  and  "Amen!" 
were  heard  at  every  sentence.  After  the  discourse  many  came  to  Dr.  Gen- 
try and  expressed  their  approval  of  the  stand  he  had  taken. 

That  is  the  Daily  News — I  call  it  the  Daily  News  Lyre. 
Here  is  Dr.  Gentry's  letter: 

ALL  FOR  CHRIST. 

6657  WENTWORTH  AVENUE,  CHICAGO,  October  10,  1899. 
REV.  JOHN  ALEXANDER  DOWIE. 

Dear  Brother  in  Christ:— My  attention  has  been  called  to  the  out- 
rageous lies  published  in  the  evening  News  of  yesterday,  representing  me 
as  having  denounced  you  as  a  counterfeit,  etc.  I  feel  that  it  is  my  duty  to 
inform  you  that  there  is  not  one  word  of  truth  in  anything  published.  My 
remarks  were  upon  an  entirely  different  topic,  and  I  did  not  refer  to  you  in 
what  I  said.  Reporters  have  repeatedly  been  after  me  to  say  something 
against  you,  but  I  have  never  done  so,  nor  will  I  ever  do  so  in  any  antago- 
nizing spirit.  I  have  never  antagonized  you  or  your  work.  In  my  preach- 
ing I  have  confined  myself  to  the  Gospel  of  Christ,  and  know  nothing  but 
Christ  and  Him  crucified. 

Very  truly  yours  in  Christ,  WILLIAM  D.  GENTRY. 

A  Voice — "I  was  at  his  meeting  this  morning,  and  he  said 
the  very  same  thing."  i 

Dr.  Dowie — Take  that  story  as  an  illustration.  The  whole^ 
of  that  alleged  discourse  was  made  in  the  office  of  the  Daily 
"Lyre."  Not  one  word  was  said  by  Dr.  Gentry,  and  that  is  the 
fact  in  hundreds  of  similar  cases. 

The  attack  has  been  made  all  the  time  upon  Zion's  Finan- 
cial Institutions.  I  am  very  thankful  to  tell  you  that  for  every 
thousand  dollars  Zion  City  Bank  had  a  month  after  it  opened, 
it  now  has  in  its  possession  more  than  eight  thousand  dollars. 
(Applause.)  If  you  can  show  another  bank  that  has  grown  at 
the  same  rate,  I  shall  be  very  glad  to  know  it.  I  tell  the  ene- 


94  ZJON'S  HOLY   WAR. 

mies  of  Zion  that  all  they  are  doing  is  but  strengthening  Zion's 
Financial  Institutions.     (Amen.     Applause.) 

DISCONTENTED    INVESTORS     INVITED     TO    SELL     THEIR    STOCK   AT 
PAR    WITH    SIX    PER    CENT    INTEREST. 

Mr.  Fair  has  publicly  made  the  statement  that  he  regretted 
that  he  had  made  an  investment  in  Zion  Land  and  Investment 
Association  of  seven  hundred  dollars,  and  he  spoke  disrespect- 
fully and  falsely  of  its  probable  value.  The  moment  I  saw 
that,  I  directed  the  Cashier  of  the  Bank  to  write  this  letter  on 
my  behalf: 

ZION  CITY  BANK. 

1300  MICHIGAN  AVENUE, 

CHICAGO,  October  20,  1899. 
MR.  GEORGE  ARMOR  FAIR, 

No.  1344  Somerset  Street,  Philadelphia,  Penn. 

Dear  Sir : — Having  read  in  today's  Inter  Ocean  your  reported  state- 
ment concerning  certain  investments  in  Zion  Land  and  Investment  Asso- 
ciation by  yourself  and  others  whom  you  represented,  I  am  instructed  by 
the  General  Overseer  of  the  Christian  Catholic  Church  to  inform  you  that 
he  desires  me  to  purchase  for  him  your  stock;  also  the  others,  whom  you 
represent,  if  they  so  desire  it,  and  will  pay  the  par  value  for  same,  together 
with  six  per  cent  interest  added  from  date  of  issue,  provided  certificates 
are  presented  properly  assigned  to  him. 

Hoping  this  will  meet  with  an  immediate  response,  I  am, 
Respectfully  yours,          (Signed)          CHAS.  J.  BARNARD,  Cashier. 

This  letter  was  sent  to  him  in  this  city,  but  he  had  left,  and 
it  has  been  sent  after  him. 

Some  of  these  miserable  liars  say  that  they  may  begin  suit 
against  us  to  recover  the  money  which  has  been  invested  in 
stock.  If  there  is  a  single  investor  in  Zion  Land  and  Invest- 
ment Association  who  is  discontented  with  his  investment,  I 
will  buy  in  his  stock  at  par  value  with  six  per  cent  interest 
added.  (Applause.)  Do  you  see  the  fun  of  that  thing,  Mr. 
Lawyer?  (Laughter.) 

I  will  ask  another  question.  This  is  a  large  audience  of 
friends,  and,  of  course,  I  know  there  are  some  foes.  I  will  ask 
if  there  is  a  single  holder  of  Zion  Land  and  Investment  Asso- 
ciation stock,  or  Zion  City  Bank  stock,  who  wants  to  sell  his 
stock  or  her  stock,  will  you  please  to  arise  and  say  so?  (No 
one  arose.) 

THERE   ARE   NO    DISCONTENTED    INVESTORS    IN    THIS   AUDIENCE. 

The  offer  I  have  made  to  Mr.  Fair  will  remain  open  for  a 
week  to  every  shareholder  in  Zion  City  Bank  or  Zion  Land 
and  Investment  Association;  I  will  buy  every  dollar  of  their 
stock.  (Applause.) 

That  is  no  bluff.  You  can  come  and  get  it  at  Zion  City 
Bank.  I  do  not  say  that  I  will  leave  that  open  all  the  time,  for 
this  reason — and  now  I  am  going  to  give  myself  away — after 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  95 

this  week  I  shall  be  using  the  money  that  has  been  placed  in 
my  hands  for  the  purchase  of  Zion  City  Land,  thank  God. 
(Applause.)  Is  that  true,  Deacon  Judd? 

Deacon  Judd—"  That  is  true." 

Dr.  Dowie — Is  that  true,  Deacon  Sloan? 

Deacon  Sloan — "That  is  true." 

Dr.  Dowie — Is  that  true,  Deacon  Barnard? 

Deacon  Barnard — "That  is  true." 

Dr.  Dowie — I  leave  that  offer  open  for  a  week.  Let  it  be 
telegraphed  now  by  the  associated  liars  to  all  the  country. 
(Applause.)  I  want  them  to  telegraph  that  Dr.  Dowie  said 
upon  the  platform  of  Zion  Tabernacle  that  he  would  buy  over 
the  counter  of  Zion  City  Bank  every  share  of  stock,  and  pay 
one  hundred  cents  on  the  dollar  for  it  at  six  per  cent  interest. 
I  ask  again,  is  there  one  in  Zion  who  wants  to  sell  his  stock? 

There  has  not  been  a  single  application  made  by  a  discon- 
tented shareholder  for  the  return  of  his  money.  I  am  glad  to 
be  able  to  leave  this  offer  open  for  a  week. 

That  settles  you  fellows  as  a  business  proposition,  and  it 
knocks  out  every  cunning  lawyer.  (Applause  and  laughter.) 

IF   DISCONTENT    EXISTED   AT   PHILADELPHIA,    IT   WAS    NOT    KNOWN 
AT    HEADQUARTERS. 

If  there  is  any  discontent  in  the  Church  in  Philadelphia,  it 
was  never  made  known  to  us,  not  even'  by  Mr.  Fair,  until  he 
appeared  and  told  the  buzz-saw  to  slop  working  or  he  would 
bite  it.  Poor  young  man!  I  said  to  my  good  wife,  who  is  on 
the  platform  today  for  the  first  time  for  some  months — ancj  may 
God  bless  her  (Amen) — I  said  to  her,  "What  do  you  think  of 
this?"  She  said,  "You  know,  John,  the  first  time  he  made 
application  some  two  years  ago,  when  you  refused  to  receive 
him,  I  told  you  I  was  very  glad,  because  I  thought  he  was  top- 
heavy."  (Laughter.) 

The  poor  young  man's  head  has  been  swollen  tremendously 
since  I  inaugurated  him,  less  than  three  months  ago,  into  the 
charge  at  Philadelphia.  I  am  afraid  I  am  responsible  for  giv- 
ing the  Devil  an  opportunity  to  swell  his  head.  The  young 
man  does  not  seem  to  have  any  sense  at  all.  I  am  so  sorry  for 
him.  I  am  so  sorry  for  them  all. 

If  there  has  been  a  single  discontented  member,  Head- 
quarters does  not  know  it. 

Deacon  Anderson,  you  are  the  General  Recorder  of  the 
Christian  Catholic  Church ;  has  there  been  one  single  resigna- 
tion from  Philadelphia? 

Deacon  Anderson — "  No,  Doctor,  there  has  not." 

Dr.  Dowie — Has  there  been  any  expression  of  discontent, 
so  far  as  you  know? 

Deacon  Anderson — "  Not  that  I  have  heard  of." 


96  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

Dr.  Dowie — I  do  not  believe  he  was  really  the  delegate  of 
anybody  but  himself.  But  if  he  were  the  delegate  of  any  who 
had  been  deceived  by  him,  we  have  sent  down  our  delegates; 
we  have  taken  him  from  his  position,  and  we  have  placed  the 
Church  under  exceedingly  good  care,  thank  God.  (Ame<n.) 

The  buzz-saw  will  go  on,  and  I  think  it  will  be  bad  for  the 
mice,  unless  they  keep  out  of  the  way. 

The  announcements  were  then  made  and  the  tithes  and 
offerings  were  received.  Dr.  Dowie  then  delivered  the  after- 
noon address. 

ZION'S  WITNESS  AGAINST  THE  ADULTERERS. 


INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight,  and  profitable  unto  this  people,  and  unto  all  to  whom 
these  words  shall  come,  in  this  and  every  land,  until  Jesus  come,  for  His 
sake.  Amen. 

In  the  Book  of  the  Prophet  Malachi  in  the  third  chapter 
and  the  fifth  verse: 

TEXT. 

And  I  will  come  near  to  you  to  judgment ;  and  I  will  be  a  Swift  Witness 
against  the  Sorcerers,  and  against  the  Adulterers,  and  against  false  swear- 
ers; and  against  those  that  oppress  the  hireling  in  his  wages,  the  widow, 
and  the  fatherless,  and  that  turn  aside  the  stranger  from  his  right,  and  fear 
not  me,  saith  the  Lord  of  hosts.  For  I  the  Lord  change  not;  therefore  ye, 
O  sons  of  Jacob,  are  not  consumed. 

"I  will  be  a  Swift  Witness  against  the  Adulterers." 

This  is  the  second  division  of  that  wonderful  witnessing 
verse.  The  time  has  come  when  in  the  plainest  possible  way 
that  witness  shall  be  given:  the  Witness  of  Zion  against  the 
Adulterers. 

I  do  not  wonder  that  some  have  gone  away.  Some  went 
because  they  had,  no  doubt,  necessity,  but  there  were  some 
who  went  away  who  feared  what  I  might  have  to  say  upon 
that  subject,  because  it  would  come  very  closely  home. 

My  brothers  and  my  sisters,  the  delivery  of  this  Message 
in  Zion  is  a  very  serious  matter.  I  have  long  felt  that  when 
the  time  came  for  me  to  speak  still  more  boldly  concerning  the 
sins  of  the  city  and  of  the  lane,  that  I  should  have  before  me 
a  task,  a  conflict,  the  result  of  which  would  be  that  in  that 
conflict  I  would  either  meet  my  death  by  violence,  or  that  I 
should  be  placed  in  a  position  to  do,  while  I  yet  lived,  far 
greater  work  for  God  and  for  humanity,  and  for  Zion,  than  I 
had  ever  wrought.  I  pray  that  I  may  be  so  spared.  (Amen.) 

But  I  shall  not  keep  back  one  single  word  of  all  the  wit- 
ness that  God  commands  me  to  speak  as  His  Messenger.  I 
will  speak  with  love,  and  I  hope  with  wisdom,  but  I  will  speak 
the  truth;  impugn  it  who  so  lists.  I  will  speak  the  truth  of 
God. 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  97 

The  terrible  sin  which  Zion  has  witnessed  against  all  along, 
I  specifically  begin  the  witness  against  today.  I  may  say  that 
I  shall  continue  this  witnessing  against  this  sin  for  several  dis- 
courses in  our  other  Zion  Tabernacles.  It  is  too  large  a  subject 
to  deal  with  in  one  discourse.  I  say,  at  the  beginning  of  all 
that  has  to  be  said  on  this  subject,  that 

THE   PURITY   OF   THE    HOME    IS    ESSENTIAL  TO   THE   LIFE    OF   THE 

NATION. 

If  we  have  impure  homes,  impurity  in  the  marriage  rela- 
tion, then  write  ICHABOD  over  the  door  of  the  American  Nation  ; 
for  its  glory  and  its  life  have  departed. 

It  is  essential  to  the  life  of  the  Nation  that  there  should  be 
marital  purity.  Without  that  the  Nation  is  doomed. 

The  Latin  nations  have  sunk  into  such  a  condition  of  sensu- 
ality that  no  words  I  can  command  could  adequately  describe 
their  depraved  condition. 

These  Latin  nations,  France,  Spain,  Italy,  are  simply  dying 
out.  It  is  simply  an  arithmetical  question  when  they  will  dis- 
appear, unless  God,  in  His  infinite  mercy,  redeems  them  from 
the  impurity  which  has  made  the  marriage  relationship  in  these 
countries  a  continuous  scandal  in  millions  of  cases. 

This  question  lies  deep.  It  is  away  down  in  the  deepest 
depths  of  our  nature. 

When  God  made  man,  He  made  him  upright  and  perfectly 
pure.  When  all  creation  passed  before  that  solitary  man, 
Adam,  and  he  named  all  creation,  he  discovered  for  the  first 
time  his  loneliness.  He  found  that  there  was  no  female  coun- 
terpart for  him  in  the  whole  creation  of  God.  Every  animal, 
every  bird,  every  beast,  every  fish,  had  its  female  companion; 
but  Adam,  when  he  had  finished  the  naming  of  all  creation, 
realized  for  the  first  time,  in  all  its  fulness,  the  fact  that  he 
stood  alone  in  the  whole  world,  and  that  there  was  no  com- 
panion for  him  among  the  beasts. 

Then  God,  having  made  him  to  see  thisxcaused  a  deep  sleep 
to  fall  upon  him,  and  out  of  Adam  came  woman;  out  of  Ish 
came  Isha;  out  of  the  male  came  the  female. 

When  God  took  that  rib  and  made  woman,  God  made  that 
creature  who  was  essential  for  man's  happiness.  God  said, 
"  'Tis  not  good  for  man  to  be  alone."  When  that  beautiful 
woman  was  presented  to  man,  after  he  awakened  from  that 
sleep,  he  received  that  Gift  at  the  hands  of  God  Himself. 

The  first  marriage  was  in  Eden,  and  that  marriage  was  per- 
formed by  God  Himself.  There  was  none  other  to  perform  it. 

MONOGAMY   WAS   ESTABLISHED    BY   GOD   HIMSELF. 

The  marriage  of  one  man  to  one  woman  was  established  in 
Eden  in  the  time  of  man's  innocence  as  a  necessity  to  human 
happiness.  The  perfect  unity  of  man  and  woman  is  one  great 
essential  to  man's  happiness. 


98  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

That  which  has  caused  all  human  misery;  that  which  has 
caused  every  sin,  and  every  sickness,  and  every  sorrow,  and 
every  war,  and  every  curse  which  has  fallen  upon  humanity,  was 
the  devilish  skill  with  which  Satan  interrupted  that  pure  marriage 
relationship.  He  led  away  from  Adam  the  woman  whom  God 
had  given  to  him.  He  persuaded  her  to  find  in  him,  the  foul 
defiler,  another  guide  than  the  man  whom  God  had  placed 
upon  this  earth  long  before  she  was  created.  Satan  took  the 
place  of  Adam,  and  caused  that  woman  to  commit  the  terrible 
and  awful  sin,  which,  whether  it  be  under  a  figure  or  not,  is  the 
deadly  sin  which  lies  at  the  whole  basis  of  humanity's  misery :  the 
sin  of  sensual  and  selfish  indulgence  which  the  Devil  tempted 
her  to  commit,  and  in  committing  which  she  fell. 

Adam  became  a  partaker  of  that  foul  transgression,  and 
the  gates  of  sin  opened  for  humanity  the  pathway  of  suffering, 
disease  and  death,  the  pathway  to  hell. 

From  that  day  to  this  humanity  has  been  going  for  the 
most  part  in  one  great  broad  stream  down  that  road  to  destruc- 
tion, sin,  disease,  death  and  hell,  the  way  the  Devil  opened  then. 

This  is  the  fundamental  thought.  Put  it  as  one  may,  it  is 
impossible  to  conceal  the  fact  which  the  Word  of  God  makes 
perfectly  plain,  and  only  those  who  will  not  see  are  blind  in  the 
matter,  namely,  that 

THE   ACT    OF   EVE    WAS   AN  ACT    OF   SPIRITUAL   AND    PSYCHICAL,  IF 
NOT   PHYSICAL,    ADULTERY. 

The  consequence  of  that  act  was  the  birth  of  a  son  who  was 
a  curse  to  the  human  race;  the  birth  of  Cain,  of  whom  the  Word 
of  God  says,  "he  was  of  the  Evil  One,  and  slew  his  brother." 

Cain,  in  all  essentials,  was  an  incarnate  devil. 

Cain,  from  the  very  beginning,  had  the  spirit  of  a  murderer. 

If  a  man  is  envious  of  his  neighbor,  that  envy,  if  it  is  con- 
tinued, will  at  last  end  in  murder. 

Envy  has  uprooted  great  cities.  It  has  destroyed  mighty 
nations.  It  produced  the  crucifixion  of  Jesus  Christ;  for  Pilate 
the  procurator  knew  that  for  envy  they  had  delivered  Him. 

I  desire  you  to  see  that  Cain  was,  as  the  Scripture  says,  ek 
(CK),  out  of,  that  Evil  One,  and  slew  his  brother.  The  conse- 
quence of  it  was  that  when  the  race  of  Cain  multiplied  upon 
this  earth,  the  more  it  increased  the  more  devilish  became 
humanity,  until  at  last  God  had  to  destroy  entirely  the  whole 
creation,  with  the  exception  of  a  descendant  of  another  man, 
Seth.  Seth,  "  compensation,"  the  third  son  of  Adam,  was  given 
to  Eve  after  she  saw  her  sin  and  its  terrible  consequence. 

When  there  was  only  that  murderer  upon  the  earth,  God  in 
His  Infinite  mercy  provided  Seth.  In  the  race  of  Seth,  Noah, 
"the  rest-bringer,"  came,  and  but  for  Noah,  faithful  amidst  a 
faithless  world,  and  the  seven  who  were  with  him,  his  wife,  his 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  99 

sons  Shem,  Ham  and  Japheth,  and  their  wives,  humanity  would 
have  been  blotted  out.  I  am  glad  to  believe  that,  according  to 
the  Word  of  God,  there  is  not  a  single  descendant,  physically, 
of  the  race  of  Cain  to  be  found  upon  this  earth  today.  God 
swept  them  all  away. 

But,  my  brothers  and  my  sisters,  so  long  as  there  is  a  Devil 
in  hell,  so  long  as  it  is  possible  for  unseen  spirits  to  possess  the 
visible  bodies  of  men,  so  long  as  it  is  possible  for  woman  to  be 
deceived  by  the  arch-deceiver,  Satan,  and  by  the  foul  men  who 
have  become  his  servants,  just  so  long  will  there  be  that  part 
of  the  repetition  of  the  Devil's  action  which  caused  the  first 
transgression;  just  so  long  will  adultery  and  its  cognate  and 
horrible  vices  continue.  I  am  under  no  misapprehension. 
Until  a  man  has  given  himself,  spirit,  soul  and  body,  to  God,  it 
is  always  possible  for  him  to  be  a  temple  of  the  most  hellish 
lusts,  and  the  most  depraved  wickedness. 

I  desire  to  guard  carefully  against  certain  possible  misun- 
derstandings first.  I  am  not  speaking  in  the  way  of  casting  a 
stone  at  any  who  have  thus  sinned. 

MAN'S   UNIVERSAL    GUILT    OF   THE   SIN    OF   SENSUAL   LUST. 

I  remember  well  the  story  which  I  read  to  you  of  the  Mas- 
ter concerning  the  woman  taken  in  adultery.  I  do  not  know 
that  there  is  one  man  here  today  who  could  not  be  charged 
with  that  sin.  Even  if,  by  the  Grace  of  God,  we  have  been 
kept  from  the  actual  commission  of  that  sin,  and  I  humbly 
hope  that  many  here  have,  what  man  is  there  born  of  woman 
who  would  dare  to  stand  up  and  say  that  the  thought  of 
iniquity,  which  is  sin,  has  not  been  in  his  heart?  What  man 
born  of  woman  would  dare  to  say  that  he  has  never  trans- 
gressed that  law  of  Christ  which  He  laid  down  when  He  said: 

Every  one  that  looketh  on  a  woman  to  lust  after  her,  hath  already  com- 
mitted adultery  with  her  in  his  heart. 

I  would  not  believe  you  if  you  said  that  you  never  had  a 
thought  of  lust.  I  would  challenge  your  statement,  and  say 
that  it  is  simply  impossible  to  conceive  of  its  being  true,  unless 
you  had  been  regenerated  before  you  were  born.  I  do  not 
believe  that  you  were.  I  believe  that  the  only  human  being 
who  was  perfectly  pure  from  His  birth  was  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ.  Besides  Him  there  never  was  a  perfectly  holy  being. 
I  ask  you  if  I  am  not  right  in  that  thought.  Let  every  man 
say  Yes  or  No. 

Men— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — I  cannot  speak  for  woman:  for  I  believe  that 
God  in  His  infinite  mercy  has  wondrously  blessed  woman,  and 
that  there  are  thousands,  and  tens  of  thousands,  and  hundreds 
of  thousands  of  pure-minded  women.  Yet  with  my  large 
knowledge  of  humanity,  and  of  the  temptation  and  skill  with 


100  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

which  the  Devil  has  suggested  thought  by  means  of  filthy  plays, 
pictures,  theatres,  books  and  filthy  poems,  it  is  a  question 
whether  the  suggestion  has  even  been  perfectly  absent  from 
even  the  purest  woman.  Regarding  that  I  cannot  say.  But  my 
experience  of  man  is  that  it  is  impossible  to  conceive,  as  the 
world  is  today,  that  there  is  a  man  living  upon  this  earth  who 
has  not  more  or  less  yielded,  if  it  were  only  for  a  moment,  in 
his  unregenerate  condition,  to  a  thought  of  iniquity.  And  it  is 
written,  "The  thought  of  foolishnesss  is  sin." 

Of  course,  I  believe  that  there  are  very  large  numbers  of 
men  to  whom  that  sin  is,  humanly  speaking,  an  impossibility 
today,  for  God  has  so  changed  their  hearts,  and  so  completely 
transformed  their  lives,  that  so  long  as  they  continue  to  trust 
God,  the  thought  of  that  sin,  or  the  desire  for  that  horrible  sin, 
does  not,  cannot  and,  by  the  grace  of  God,  will  not  enter  their 
hearts. 

I  am  so  glad  to  hear  continually  from  the  wives  of  my  own 
dear  people  how  transformed  their  husbands  are  who  once 
committed  these  horrible  sins,  and  how  happy  and  pure  the 
home  is  where  that  devilish  passion  is  absent. 

The  reason  for  Zion's  witness  in  this  matter  is:  First, 
because 

GOD     CALLS     UPON     US     TO     WITNESS     AGAINST     THE     ADULTERER. 

If  we  do  not  know  any  other  reason  why  we  should 
do  ic,  we  ought  to  do  it  because  He  commands  it,  should  we 
not? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — We  witness,  secondly,  because  we  have  found 
that  the  witness  already  has  produced  a  great  good,  has  it 
not? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — In  all  parts  of  the  world  people  have  been 
blessed  by  the  plain  talk  from  this  platform. 

Unless  Zion  takes  its  stand  now  and  witnesses  against  every 
form  of  legalized,  as  well  as  illegal,  adultery,  we  shall  be,  in 
God's  sight,  partakers  in  men's  sin. 

The  Church  of  God  has  been  terribly  at  fault  in  this 
matter. 

Sometimes  we  are  told  to  look  at  the  Church  of  Rome,  and 
to  see  how  marriage  is  maintained  in  its  purity  by  that  Church, 
which  refuses  divorce.  What  a  farce  it  is  to  say  that  that 
Church  refuses  divorce. 

Is  it  not  a  fact  that  divorces,  like  everything  else,  can  be 
bought,  and  have  been  bought,  at  Rome? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — That  is  an  historical  fact.  Therefore,  the  ques- 
tion of  marital  purity  is  simply  a  question  of  the  size  of  the  fee 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  101 

you  are  prepared  to  pay  to  the  Pope.  .  AVkat  2  farce 'k  rs  to  say 
that  the  Roman  Church  maintains -manta!  purity,  ;• 

ROME    IS   THE    DESTROYER    OF  ;MAR1TAL    PURITY,'* 

because  that  Church  compels  its  priests  to  live  celibate  lives, 
and  all  its  religious  women  to  live  in  enforced  celibacy.  It 
compels  them  to  take  vows  of  celibacy  for  life  which  are  simply 
incompatible  with  the  possibility  of  living  a  decent  and  clean 
and  upright  life. 

Again  and  again  priests  in  this  and  other  countries  who  have 
come  out  of  the  Church  of  Rome  have  told  me  that  they  did 
not  know  of  a  single  bishop  or  priest  who  was  not  an  adulterer; 
that  they  did  not  know  of  a  single  convent  which  was  not  the 
scene  of  constant  fornication. 

They  declared  that  the  association  of  the  monastery  and 
convent  were  such  that  when  the  priests  retired  to  monasteries 
for  their  "retreats,"  it  was  a  perfect  farce  to  suppose  that  they 
were  there  fasting  or  praying  all  the  time.  They  were  simply 
indulging  in  the  vilest  and  filthiest  adulteries  and  fornication. 

These  facts  are  proved,  and  have  been  proved  all  the  way 
along,  by  the  discoveries,  continually  made  in  convents,  of 
large  numbers  of  children's  bones;  also  by  the  facts  continually 
given  to  me  concerning  the  destruction  in  quick-lime  of  such 
children.  I  have  been  given  recently  the  most  minute  details 
of  child  murder  in  connection  with  a  convent  in  one  of  the 
Southern  States. 

I  refuse  to  recognize  in  the  Roman  Church — I  will  not  call 
it  Catholic,  because  the  word  catholic  means  universal,  and 
when  you  have  limited  ,it  by  the  adjective  Roman,  you  have 
destroyed  its  universality.  That  only  can  be  universal  which 
is  Christian ;  for  Christ's  Name  is  a  greater  Name  than  the  word 
Catholic,  and  the  Christian  Catholic  Church  is  a  possibility. 
But  when  you  use  the  name  Greek,  or  Roman,  or  English,  you 
tie  down  the  catholicity  to  a  city  or  a  country  or  a  language. 

The  Roman,  the  Papal  Church,  has  no  right  to  pose  as  a 
champion  against  adultery,  because  that  Church  today,  by  the 
enforced  celibacy  of  its  priesthood,  is  the  greatest  possible  pro- 
ducer of  adultery. 

Are  we  all  blind?  How  long  ago  is  it  since  Pope  Pius  Ninth 
died?  Many  of  us  who  are  in  middle  age  remember  when  he 
died.  He  was  the  predecessor  of  the  present  pope.  He  died 
on  February  7,  1878. 

SECRETARY  OF  STATE  OF  POPE  PIUS  IX  WAS  PROVED  AN  ADULTERER. 

When  he  died  Cardinal  Antonelli  was  secretary  of  state  to 
Pope  Pius  IX.  Have  we  all  forgotten  that  in  the  courts  of  the 
City  of  Rome,  under  the  Italian  government,  Cardinal  Anto- 
nelli's  daughter  laid  claim  to  her  father's  estate,  proved  her 
paternity  under  the  civil  law,  and  was  conceded  the  estate? 


102  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

Is  tnat  not  very  strong  and  clear  evidence  that  a  cardinal, 
standing  next  to  the  head  of  the  Roman  Church,  was  an 
adulterer? 

I  do  not  care  wh'at  the  result  may  be.  I  protest  in  the 
Name  of  the  Ever-living  God  against  the  Roman  Church  posing 
as  the  protector  of  the  home  or  of  marriage.  It  is  the  de- 
stroyer of  both.  (Amen.) 

I  protest  against  the  Greek  Church  being  supposed  to  be  a 
protector  of  marriage.  There  is  no  necessity  for  very  many 
words.  The  Greek  Church  today  is  in  such  a  scandalous  con- 
dition that  morality  is  utterly  disregarded. 

(Dr.  Dowie  was  interrupted  at  this  point  by  a  lady  falling 
in  an  epileptic  fit.  He  went  down  and  prayed  with  her,  when 
she  immediately  arose  and  walked  out.) 

I  always  notice  that  when  you  touch  a  subject  like  this,  the 
epileptics,  who  in  nine  cases  out  of  ten  are  epileptic  because  of 
their  vices,  will  go  off  into  a  fit. 

There  may  be  a  good  many  of  you  go  off  into  fits  before  we 
are  through. 

Whenever  you  approach  that  which  the  Devil  holds  as  his 
own,  the  human  body,  and  the  purity  of  the  human  body,  he 
will  try  and  interrupt  in  some  way.  I  have  seen  it  again  and 
again.  I  was  not  unprepared  for  that. 

I  would  rather  do  a  week's  preaching  than  have  to  do  what 
I  did  then.  I  did  not  pray  audibly,  but  I  prayed  in  my  heart 
to  make  the  Devil  get  out  of  her  quick.  God  heard  and 
answered. 

Still  that  takes  more  strength  than  almost  anything  else, 
because  there  is  a  fierce  fight  between  two  spirits,  the  Spirit  of 
God  within  me,  and  the  spirit  of  the  Devil  within  her. 

THE  GREEK  CHURCH  IS  NOT  A  PROTECTOR  OF  MARITAL  PURITY. 

A  distinguished  Russian  told  me,  a  little  while  ago,  that  so 
vile  was  the.action  of  the  Greek  priests  in  his  particular  neigh- 
borhood that  he  has  known  men  to  strip  the  Greek  priest  of 
his  clerical  attire,  then  punch  him  and  knock  him  down,  and 
nearly  break  every  bone  in  his  body  because  of  adultery;  then 
put  upon  him  again  his  priestly  robes,  and  reverence  him. 

They  trounce  the  man  but  reverence  the  priest. 

Such  is  the  condition  in  so-called  Holy  Russia  that  people 
have  to  reverence  the  priest,  because  the  State  says  so. 

If  you  do  not   reverence  the  priest,  you  will  go  to  Siberia. 

That  is  the  kind  of  a  country  Russia  is.  May  God  Almighty 
smite  the  Greek  Church  (Amen)  and  destroy  it. 

I  am  sorry,  but  I  have  to  enter  the  same  caveat  against  the 
Protestant  denominations.  They  do  not  safeguard  marriage. 

The  Protestant  denominations  are  full  of  members,  and  of 
not  a  few  ministers,  who  have  been  divorced  for  grounds  that 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  103 

the  Scripture  does  not  recognize  as  grounds  for  divorce.  The 
scandal  is  to  be  found  in  all  parts  of  this  city  and  all  parts  of 
this  land.  Ministers  of  the  Gospel  are  united  in  marriage  to 
woman  with  whom  they  are  living  in  shameful  adultery,  if  the 
law  of  God  is  to  be  considered.  They  have  not  received 
divorces  from  their  wives  in  accordance  with  the  law  of  God. 
There  is  only  one  cause  for  divorce,  and  that  is  adultery, 
and  in  that  case  the  one  who  marries  again  must  have  been  free 
from  that  sin.  If  one  marries  who  has  committed  adultery,  he 
or  she  continues  to  commit  adultery. 

THE  LAW  OF  GOD  NEVER  PERMITS  AN  ADULTERER  OR  AN  ADUL- 
TERESS TO  MARRY  AGAIN. 

May  God  take  away  every  such  one  from  our  midst  (Amen) 
unless  they  repent  and  get  away  from  that  illicit  and  impure 
connection. 

The  Protestant  churches  are  responsible  for  not  maintaining 
the  law  of  God  in  this  matter.  The  churches  are  full  of  men 
and  women  who  have  had  no  right  to  be  married,  because  there 
was  no  Biblical  ground  for  their  divorce. 

Incompatibility  of  temperament  is  not  a  cause  for  divorce 
under  God's  law. 

I  will  tell  the  public  now  something  they  do  not  know. 
The  reason  why  a  certain  elder  was  removed  from  this 
Church  was  because  he  persisted  in  paying  attentions  to  a 
young  lady  who  is  a  member  of  this  Church,  himself  being 
married  without  a  divorce  from  his  wife,  and  unable  to  get  one 
for  any  Scriptural  cause.  I  did  right  to  expel  him,  did  I  not? 

Audience— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — The  whole  Church  was  with  me.  I  say  here 
what  has  been  said  privately.  He  committed  adultery  in  his 
heart  in  desiring  to  marry  any  one  when  he  was  not  yet  divorced 
from  his  wife.  If  he  should  secure  a  divorce  from  her  for  any 
other  cause  than  that  of  adultery,  then  he  dare  not  marry  again 
without  being  an  adulterer  himself. 

Since  I  removed  him  he  has  applied  to  the  courts  for 
divorce  on  the  ground  of  desertion.  That  act  vindicates  my 
action. 

I  have  maintained  the  Purity  of  the  marriage  relation  in 
this  Church  in  expelling  him  because  he  would  not  cease  to  pay 
attention  to  that  lady. 

Zion  makes  no  compromises  whatever  in  this  matter.  If 
there  yet  remain  in  this  Church  any  who  have  a  divorce  for 
any  other  than  for  a  Scriptural  cause,  they  must  at  once  retire 
from  fellowship,  or  they  must  retire  from  that  illicit  and  adul- 
terous connection. 

I  demand  it,  and  if  I  find  that  there  is  any  one  still  contin- 
uing in  this  Church  who  has  been  so  married,  I  shall  expel  that 
man  or  woman.  The  buzz-saw  will  work  very  quickly. 


104  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

Adultery,  therefore,  has  been  protected  by  many  of  the 
Protestant  churches,  and  is  provided  for  by  laws  against  which 
they  make  no  protest. 

THE   LAWS   OF   THE   STATE   ARE   BREEDERS    OF   ADULTERERS. 

I  arraign  the  laws  of  every  country  which  gives  divorce  for 
anything  but  the  Scriptural  cause.  The  divorce  mill  of  Chi- 
cago is  no  better  than  the  late  divorce  mill  of  South  Dakota. 

Every  divorce  mill  which  turns  out  a  divorce  for  any  other 
cause  than  that  of  adultery  is  simply  a  mill  that  is  worked  by 
the  Devil  in  producing  countless  adulteries. 

I  challenge  the  laws  of  the  State  of  Illinois  in  that  matter. 
The  Legislature  should  annul  these  laws,  or  else  stand  con- 
demned before  God  and  before  the  world  as  the  creator  of 
adultery-manufacturing  laws. 

I  care  not  what  that  may  bring  to  me,  I  say  once  more,  that 
the  Legislature,  if  it  does  not  rescind  these  laws,  is  simply  an 
adultery-making  machine.  (Amen.)  Before  God  I  arraign 
these  laws. 

These  are  the  things  fundamental  to  my  subject. 

Oh,  ye  adulterers  and  adulteresses,  know  ye  not  that  the 
friendship  of  the  world  is  enmity  with  God?  Know  ye  not 
that  no  matter  what  the  law  has  said,  or  what  the  world  has 
said,  there  is  no  place  for  you  but  hell,  when  you  pass  this 
earth,  if  you  defy  the  law  of  God?  And,  oh  ye  who  have  com- 
mitted these  terrible  crimes  of  impurity,  I  beseech  you  to 
repent  of  your  sin  before  God. 

Think,  oh  think  of  the  bitter  shame  you  have  wrought 
when  you  have  defiled  and  destroyed  that  which  not  even  God 
Himself  can  restore,  the  virginal  purity  of  a  woman.  God 
may  forgive  the  sin,  God  may  cleanse  your  heart,  but  the  great 
God  Himself  cannot  restore  to  her,  physically,  the  purity  she 
has  lost. 

You  may  take  out  the  nail,  but  the  mark  is  there  which  you 
have  made  in  the  wood.  You  may  putty  it  up,  you  may  var- 
nish it  over,  but  the  mark  is  there;  and  though  no  eye  may  see 
it,  the  mark  of  this  sin  is  there,  even  upon  those  whom  God 
has  forgiven.  Although  the  mark  is  taken  away  from  their 
spirits,  and  they  are  made  pure  in  spirit,  the  mark  is  there 
physically  and  psychically  as  long  as  they  live. 

WHAT   A   BITTER     DISGRACE     YOU    ADULTERERS     HAVE     WROUGHT. 

Have  you  never  thought,  ye  common  adulterers,  of  the 
children,  nameless  and  shameless,  who  have  been  brought  into 
this  world  and  have  gone  out  into  life,  not  knowing  their 
fathers  or  mothers,  bearing  the  brand  of  your  sin,  bearing  the 
brand  of  your  shame,  and  standing  before  the  judgment  seat 
by  and  by  to  damn  you  with  their  presence,  unless  you  repent, 
and  seek  them  out? 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  105 

Oh,  seek  out  that  bastard  child,  who,  but  for  your  reclaim- 
ing him  or  her  from  ignorance  and  vice  and  crime,  may  live  to 
be  a  harlot,  a  thief,  or  a  murderer,  and  stand  before  you  at  the 
judgment,  and  say,  "Here  am  I,  your  child.  You  begat  me, 
and  then  you  sent  me  out  into  life  worse  than  a  beast  does  its 
offspring.  You  cared  nothing  for  me,  and  I  became  a  harlot, 
a  thief,  a  murderer." 

Before  the  judgment  seat,  what  an  awful  thing  that  will  be. 
I  pray  God  that  you  who  have  sinned  shall  make  now  your 
true  repentance,  and  shall  seek  the  woman  you  have  wronged. 
Offer  her  all  the  reparation  you  can  give.  Offer  all  the  help 
you  can  give  for  the  poor  child  of  sin  and  shame  whom  your 
vice  and  your  brutality  and  your  accursed  adultery  have  brought 
into  the  world,  and,  if  you  are  unmarried,  do  her  the  justice  to 
marry  her.  I  speak  for  the  poor  children  of  shame. 

Tonight  my  heart  is  full  of  sorrow  as  I  think  of  them. 

Zion  has  gone  down  into  the  slums,  and  there  is  a  little 
house  not  far  from  here  into  which  we  take  these  daughters  of 
shame — Zion  Home  of  Hope  for  Erring  Women.  We  take  care 
of  the  little  offspring,  who  but  for  that  care  might  be  murdered 
before  birth,  at  birth,  or  after  it.  Many  a  little  child  has  now, 
and  will  in  the  coming  time,  have  a  name  and  a  place. 

Thanks  be  to  God,  already  some  of  them  have  gone  into 
good  homes.  Little  babes  who  were  the  children  of  the  shame- 
less harlot  who  gave  up  the  child  have  been  placed  in  Chris- 
tian homes,  where  childless  wives  have  taken  the  little  ones 
to  their  bosoms.  The  children  will  now  get  good  men's  names, 
and  good  men's  sympathy  and  love.  They  will  receive,  thanks 
be  to  God,  an  education  and  a  profession  that  will  make  them, 
in  the  coming  time,  a  blessing  and  a  benediction. 

We  have  five  such  children  now  whom  we  desire  to  find 
homes  for.  May  God  grant  that  these  little  nameless  ones,  the 
daughters  and  the  sons  of  the  shameless,  shall  find  homes  where 
they  will  never  know  how  shame  brought  them  into  the  world. 

Today  Zion  must,  and  Zion  will,  witness  against  adultery. 

May  God  bless  us. 

I  have  not  spoken  in  unkindness  regarding  the  Roman 
Catholic  people,  or  the  Greek  Catholic  people,  or  the  people 
belonging  to  any  Church  on  earth.  I  have  spoken  against  the 
ecclesiastics  and  the  false  doctrines  which  rule  these  churches. 
I  love  all  the  people  of  every  creed.  May  God  destroy  every 
apostate  Church,  and  save  all  the  people,  (Amen.) 

CALL. 

All  who  desire  to  give  themselves  wholly  to  God,  stand  up 
and  tell  Him  so.  (As  far  as  could  be  seen,  no  one  remained 

Sitting.)  PRAYER   OF   CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be.  Forgive  the  impurity  and  the  unclean- 


106  ZION'S  HOLY    WAR. 

ness  which  may  have  entered  into  my  thoughts  or  into  my  life,  and  make 
me  clean  in  spirit,  and  in  soul,  and  in  body.  Help  me  to  witness  as  a  wit- 
ness who  has  been  set  free  from  the  sin  of  uncleanness  for  Jesus'  sake. 
Make  me  clean  and  keep  me  clean  in  Jesus'  Name.  (All  repeat  the  prayer, 
clause  by  clause,  after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

Do  you  intend  to  live  that  kind  of  life? 

Audience— "Yes," 

Dr.  Dowie — May  God  help  you.  Stand  by  me,  my  brothers 
and  my  sisters,  in  these  days.  Oh,  I  thank  you  for  the  love 
which  you  have  all  shown  me.  As  I  looked  upon  the  faces  of 
my  strong  good  men  last  Wednesday  night,  when  I  issued  into 
the  street  where  there  were  perhaps  more  than  ten  thousand 
howling  people,  I  did  thank  God  for  the  love  which  I  saw  in 
your  eyes,  and  for  that  which  I  knew  was  in  your  hearts.  I 
thank  God  that  if  my  life  were  in  any  danger,  you  would  give 
your  lives  before  they  could  reach  me.  I  believe  that  was  in 
your  hearts,  was  it  not? 
•  Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — I  know  it  was. 

The  women  were  as  brave  as  the  men;  perhaps  a  little 
braver.  May  God  bless  them. 

I  do  not  believe  that  I  shall  die  until  my  work  is  done. 

The  meeting  was  then  closed  by  Dr.  Dowie  pronouncing  the 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil  And  may  the  very  God 
of  Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 
grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you,  bless 
you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


ZION'S    HOLY    WAR. 


PRELUDE— WELCOME    TO    WEST    SIDE    ZION    TABERNACLE. 
SERMON— THE  EVERLASTING  GOSPEL. 


THE  mighty  power  of  the  Spirit  of  God  was  present  at  the 
meeting  addressed  by  the  General  Overseer  at  the  West 
Side  Zion  Tabernacle,  on  Wednesday  evening,  October  25, 
1899.  Zion  had  won  her  bloodless  victory,  and  in  place  of  the 
riotous  thousands  which  had  crowded  and  surrounded  the  place 
but  a  week  before,  there  was  an  audience  of  over  a  thousand 
people  who  listened,  with  almost  strained  attention,  for  every 
word  which  came  from  the  lips  of  the  General  Overseer. 
Although  many  medical  and  surgical  students,  who  had  before 
been  the  disorderly  element,  were  in  the  Tabernacle,  there  was 
not  the  slightest  attempt  at  a  repetition  of  the  disgraceful 
scenes  of  the  week  before.  A.  w.  N. 


West  Side  Zion  Tabernacle,  Wednesday  Evening,  October  25,  1809. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing  Hymn  Number  12: 

"God  is  love!" — His  Word  proclaims  it, 

Day  by  day  the  truth  we  prove; 
Heaven  and  earth  with  joy  are  telling, 
Ever  telling,  "God  is  love!" 

CHORUS — Hallelujah!  tell  the  story, 

Sung  by  angel  choirs  above; 
Sounding  forth  the  mighty  chorus — 
"  God  is  Life,  and  Light,  and  Love." 

The  Scripture  lesson  was  read  from  the  first  chapter  of  St. 
Mark;  also  from  the  fourth  chapter  of  St.  Luke. 

Prayer  was  offered  by  Elder  Bouck  and  Dr.  Dowie. 

The  announcements  were  made  and  the  tithes  and  offerings 
received. 

THE  EVERLASTING  GOSPEL. 


Dr.  Dowie  delivered  the  following  address: 

INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight,  profitable  unto  this  people,  and  unto  all  to  whom  these 
words  shall  come,  for  the  sake  of  Jesus,  Thy  dear  Son,  our  Father,  by  Thy 
Spirit.     Amen. 
War-io7 


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ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 


God 

u     OUTfiHher. 
Holiness, 
5alvaf1on  for 
Spirit 
Soul 


"METHODISM  AND  THE  DOWIE  TEACHINGS  HAVE  NOTHING  IN  COMMON." 

•(See  LEAVES  OF  HEALING,  October  28.- 1899,  pages  17-20;  Also  this  number,.page  67.;  -Presiding  Elder  Emer>. 

The  hatred  to  Zion  of  the  officials  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  has  been  intensifying  year  by  year  On  October  7,  1899,  the 
Annual  Conference  *eld  in  Oakland.  Cal.  expelled  from  the  ministry  and  membership  ot  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  South  "  two  of  its 
best  ministers  against  *hom  there  was  no  other  charge  than  distributing  Dowie  literature  namely  LEAVES  OF  HEALING,  and  A  VOICE  FROM 
ZION.  which  they  declared  to  be  contrary  to  our  articles  ot  religion."  This  was  a  falsehood  tor  there  is  not  a  line  In  their  -articles  of  religion" 
contrary  to  Zion  teaching  But  although  there  are  large  numbers  ot  true  Christians  m  their  Churches,  yet  as  Organizations  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  phurches  (North  and  South)  have  departed  from  God.  and  are  gone-  to  the  Devil  denying  Wesley's  teachings  and  God's  Wor 
protecting  the  abominable  things  shown  In  this  cartoon. 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  109 

I  am  to  speak  to  you  tonight  concerning  the  Everlasting 
Gospel,  and  I  read  to  you  these  words  in  the  fourteenth  chap- 
ter of  the  Revelation  of  Jesus  Christ,  and  the  sixth  and  seventh 
verses: 

TEXT. 

And  I  saw  another  angel  flying  in  midheaven,  having  an  Eternal  Gos- 
pel to  proclaim  unto  them  that  dwell  on  the  earth,  and  unto  every  nation 
and  tribe  and  tongue  and  people;  and  he  saith  with  a  great  voice,  Fear 
God,  and  give  Him  glory;  for  the  hour  of  His  judgment  is  come:  and  wor- 
ship Him  that  made  the  heaven  and  the  earth  and  sea  and  fountains  of 
waters. 

At  the  Cathedral  of  Milan  in  Italy  there  is  a  wonderful 
entrance.  That  entrance  is  beneath  three  great  arches,  on 
which  there  are  three  most  beautiful  carvings  and  suggestive 
inscriptions. 

Under  these  three  great  arches,  as  you  pass,  you  see,  first, 
an  angel  bending  over  you  as  you  enter.  He  bears  in  his  hand 
a  full-blown  rose,  the  petals  of  which  are  falling,  falling,  fall- 
ing. With  a  deep,  far-insight  he  looks  at  you,  and  out  of  his 
mouth  there  come  the  words: 


So  significant  is  the  suggestion  of  the  falling  of  the  petals 
of  the  full-blown  rose. 

Its  beauty  is  passing  away.  It  has  pleased  but  for  a  mo- 
ment. It  is  the  symbol  of  this  passing  life.  "All  that  pleases 
is  but  for  a  moment." 

Then  you  pass  under  the  next  arch.  There  an  angel  holds 
out  a  cross,  the  emblem  of  sorrow  and  shame  and  of  a  bleeding 
Sacrifice,  of  a  sinless  Christ.  As  the  angel  looks  at  you  there 
is  a  smile  on  his  face:  for  he  is  pointing  to  another  angel,' and 
he  is  saying,  as  he  shows  you  the  cross  and  bids  you  to  take  it: 

"ALL  THAT  GRIEVES  us  is  BUT  FOR  A  MOMENT." 

How  true — 

Brief  life  is  here  our  portion — 
Brief  sorrow,  short-lived  care ; 
The  life  that  knows  no  ending, 
The  tearless  life  is  there. 

"All  that  grieves  us  is  but  for  a  moment." 

Then  you  pass  under  the  third  arch.  There  with  triumph 
an  angel  is  holding  out  to  you  a  crown,  as  if  he  would  place  it 
upon  your  brow,  and  he  is  saying: 

"THAT  ONLY  ENDURES  WHICH  is  ETERNAL." 

The  crown  he  holds  out  is  the  Crown  of  Everlasting  Life. 

My  brothers  and  my  sisters,  these  three  emblems  are  before 
us.  The  passing  vanities  of  earth,  the  pleasures  of  this  life, 
are  but  for  a  moment.  The  sorrows  of  this  life  to  the  Chris- 
tian who  bears  the  cross  and  endures  the  shame  are  but  for  a 


1 10  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

moment.  The  Crown  which  the  Everlasting  Gospel  brings, 
the  Crown  of  God's  loving  kindness  and  tender  mercy,  the 
Crown  of  His  forgiveness,  the  Crown  of  Eternal  Life  which 
endures  forever,  that  Crown  tonight  I  bring  you  in  the  Name 
of  my  Lord. 

It  is  within  your  grasp,  and  I  bid  you  who  are,  with  the 
muck-rake  of  life,  pulling  together  the  sticks  and  straw  and 
counting  it  a  wonderful  thing  that  you  can  rake  in  some  gold 
or  silver,  or  some  dross  of  life,  look  up! 

The  angel  is  standing  over  you  tonight  and  saying:  "Take 
the  Crown  of  Life;  the  Everlasting  Gospel  brings  it  to  you." 

And  I  saw  another  angel  flying  in  midheaven,  having  an  Eternal  Gos- 
pel to  proclaim  unto  them  that  dwell  on  the  earth,  and  unto  every  nation 
and  tribe  and  tongue  and  people;  and  he  saith  with  a  great  voice,  Fear 
God,  and  give  Him  glory;  for  the  hour  of  His  judgment  is  come:  and  wor- 
ship Him  that  made  the  heaven  and  the  earth  and  sea  and  fountains  of 
waters. 

This  is  the  Gospel.  Oh,  what  a  wondrous  Gospel  it  is, 
and  how  certain  it  is  to  triumph.  The  night  seems  long,  and 
it  is  often  very  dark,  but  it  is  not  starless;  for  God  is  still 
God,  and  His  love  never  fails  us.  Christ  is  Eternal,  and  the 
faith  and  the  hope  and  the  love  of  this  Eternal  Gospel  are  with 
us  tonight. 

Let  me  tell  you  what  that  Gospel  is. 

Fear  God  and  keep  His  commandments,  for  this  is  the  whole  duty  of 
man. 

The  command  of  God,  as  His  own  Son  trod  this  earth  when 
He  uttered  this  Gospel,  was,  first  of  all,  in  one  word, 

REPENT! 

There  are  two  words  which  stand  forever  in  the  front  of  the 
Gospel:  Repent!  Believe! 

Repent,  turn  from  sin,  turn  from  folly,  turn  from  self,  turn 
from  the  madness  of  supposing  that  you  can  climb  your  way 
to  heaven,  or  that  you  can  ever  satisfy  yourself  by  drinking  of 
the  naphthaline  river  of  accursed  passion.  Remember  that 
you  must  repent  and  turn  to  God. 

STORY  OF  THE  RABBI  ELIEZER's  ADVICE  TO  A  YOUNG  MAN  ON 

REPENTANCE. 

"  Rabbi,"  said  one  of  the  disciples  of  the  great  Rabbi 
Eliezer  one  day;  "Rabbi,  thou  hast  spoken  so  that  thou  hast 
stirred  my  heart;  tell  me  how  long  before  he  dies  must  a  man 
repent  in  order  to  get  into  heaven." 

The  rabbi  looked  at  the  eager  young  face,  and  said,  "  My 
son,  one  day;  only  one  day." 

Oh,  the  young  man  was  so  happy,  He  went  away  and  began 
to  go  into  his  folly  and  into  his  sin.  He  thought,  as  the  rabbi 
had  said,  that  only  one  day  of  repentance  was  needed.  He 


ZION'S   HOLY    WAR.  Ill 

began  to  think  after  he  had  passed  a  few  days  in  folly,  "  I 
wonder  what  the  rabbi  meant?  One  day  before  I  die  I  am  to 
repent."  Suddenly,  by  his  side,  one  day,  a  companion  fell  dead 
in  a  drunken  fit  in  the  midst  of  a  carousal.  He  stood  and 
looked  at  that  companion's  pale  face,  and  the  blood  that  had 
oozed  from  his  heart — dead!  dead! 

That  companion  who  had  come  with  him  into  that  place  so 
full  of  life,  dead!  dead!  "Oh,  he  is  dead,  and  he  did  not 
repent!  There  was  not  one  day  given  to  him.  Oh,  suppose 
that  I  die  tonight!  I  have  not  repented." 

He  came  back  to  the  rabbi  the  next  day  and  said,  "Rabbi, 
tell  me  how  I  shall  know  the  day  before  I  die." 

"My  son,"  said  the  rabbi,  "no  man  can  tell  thee." 

"Then  how  is  it  that  thou  sayest  I  can  be  saved  if  I  repent 
one  day  before  I  die?  Thou  hast  tormented  me.  I  do  not 
know  which  day  it  is." 

"Then,  my  son,"  said  the  rabbi,  "repent  now,  lest  it  should 
be  today."  Oh,  what  a  folly  it  is  to  prepare  for  everything 
except  the  judgment  seat  of  God!  What  a  folly  it  is  to  pre- 
pare for  everything  which  may  be  except  death  and  the 
judgment,  which  mustbel 

PHILIP  DE-NERl'S  HEARTSEARCHING  QUESTION — AND   WHAT  THEN? 

Philip  De-Neri  was  one  of  the  wisest  men  who  ever  lived  in 
the  Christian  Church,  albeit  he  lived  in  the  Church  of  Rome. 
That  Church,  while  there  is  much  in  it  which  is  sinful,  has  had 
many  glorious  saints  of  God.  Philip  De-Neri  was  famous  for 
the  good  counsel  he  gave  to  young  men. 

One  day  there  came,  from  one  of  the  Italian  provinces,  such 
a  lovely,  handsome,  noble-looking  youth.  He  bore  letters 
from  men  of  high  rank  and  great  learning  and  of  great  wealth 
and  noble  station.  He  presented  himself  to  the  great  Father 
De-Neri.  The  father  looked  at  him  and  said,  "Young  man, 
I  am  so  glad  to  get  these  good  letters  telling  me  what  a  good 
youth  and  student  you  have  been.  Tell  me  what  thou  hast 
come  to  Rome  for." 

The  young  man,  pleased  to  get  the  interview,  looked  at  the 
good  man  and  said,  "I  have  come  to  Rome  to  study  law." 

"That  is  good — that  is  a  good  profession.  Well,  what  dost 
thou  expect  if  thou  dost  study  law  industriously?  What  suc- 
cess dost  thou  expect?" 

The  young  man  replied,  "Well,  father,  if  I  study  law  suc- 
cessfully, I  may  become  a  counselor." 

"Very  good,  that  is  true." 

"I  may  argue  cases  and  win  them,  and  help  the  oppressed." 

"That  is  very  good,  my  son— a  noble  ambition — and  what 
then?  Suppose  thou  dost  succeed  and  art  a  good  counselor, 
what  then?" 


112  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

"Then,"  he  said,  "I  may  become  a  judge,  if  I  am  good  and 
acceptable  to  my  king." 

"That  is  true,  and  it  is  very  likely  that  a  young  man  like 
you  will  make  a  very  successful  pleader  and  perhaps  become  a 
judge.  But  what  then,  my  son?" 

"Then  I  will  be  getting  old,  and  I  might  become  a  king's 
counselor  and  take  high  rank." 

"That  is  good,  and  that  is  a  right  and  good  ambition — and 
what  then,  my  son?" 

"Oh,  then  I  should  be  a  very  old  man,  and  I  hope  I  should 
live  with  my  family  in  peace  and  comfort  all  the  rest  of  my 
life." 

"Very  good,  young  man — and  what  then?" 

"Then  I  should  just  live  on  like  that." 

"And  what  then?" 

"Well,  father,  I  suppose  I  must  die  then." 

"And  what  then?     After  death,  what  then?" 

After  the  joys  of  earth, 
After  its  songs  of  mirth, 
After  its  hours  of  light, 
After  its  dreams  so  bright — 
What  then? 

Only  an  empty  name, 

Only  a  weary  frame, 

Only  an  aching  heart, 

Only  a  conscience  smart. 

After  that  empty  name, 
After  that  weary  frame, 
After  that  aching  heart, 
After  that  conscience  smart — 
What  then? 

Only  a  sad  farewell 

To  a  world  loved  too  well; 

Only  a  silent  bed 

With  the  forgotten  dead. 

After  that  sad  farewell 
To  a  world  loved  too  well ; 
After  that  silent  bed 
With  the  forgotten  dead — 
What  then? 

Oh,  then  the  Judgment  Throne ; 

Oh,  then  the  last  hope  gone ; 

Oh,  then  the  Day  of  Wrath 

Oh,  then  the  Second  Death. 

Lord  God  of  truth  and  grace, 
Help  us  that  wrath  to  shun, 
Lest  we  be  banished  from  Thy  face, 
Lest  we  be  all  undone. 

IS  THERE  NO  WAY  TO  SHUN  THE  DAY  OF  WRATH? 

Is  there  no  way  by  which  I  may  live  so  that  the  judgment 
seat  shall  be,  of  all  places  in  the  Universe,  the  place.  I 
to  be? 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  113 

"Yes,  there  is."  "How?"  By  receiving  and  obeying  the 
Everlasting  Gospel.  By  accepting  and  living  the  Gospel  which 
bids  you  tonight  to  repent  of  your  sins  you  have  committed 
against  your  own  bodies,  your  own  souls,  your  own  spirits,  as 
well  as  those  against  your  God  and  your  fellowman.  Repent! 

Repent  of  the  wasted  life!  Repent  of  the  wasted  hours! 
Repent  of  the  hatred  for  good !  Repent  of  the  association  with 
evil!  Repent  of  the  evil  things  which  you  have  committed! 

Remember  that  God  who  made  you  sees  you;  that  His  eye 
strikes  through  the  darkest  shades  of  night,  and  that  all  your 
hearts  and  actions  lie  all  open  to  His  sight.  Turn  to  God,  and 
turn  to  good,  for  your  God  and  Father  is  a  God  of  Infinite 
Love,  and  the  Christ  who  brought  this  Gospel  bids  you  to 
believe  Him,  to  trust  Him. 

Was  there  ever  so  safe  a  Guide?  Was  there  ever  so  kind  a 
friend?  Was  there  ever  so  wise  a  Counselor?  Was  there  ever 
so  mighty  a  Saviour,  Healer,  Cleanser  or  Keeper? 

Is  the  Christ  dead?  Are  His  bones  or  His  dust  in  the 
Syrian  tomb,  or  does  He  live? 

If  He  is  dead,  the  light  has  gone  out  of  life,  and  there  is  no 
hope,  no  help,  no  light;  nothing  anywhere  but  one  great  chasm 
of  horror  and  darkness,  without  one  single  ray  of  light  through 
all  eternity. 

But  He  lives!     He  lives,  He  ever  lives! 

Christ  hath  opened  up  the  way  by  which  we  may  shun  the 
Day  of  Wrath.  Because  He  lives  we  shall  live. 

I  desire  to  tell  you  tonight  of  the  Way  of  Life. 

Repent!  Believe!  Obey!  Fear  God  and  keep  God's 
commandments  and  worship  Him  who  made  the  earth,  the 
seas,  the  fountains,  the  waters.  God  who  sent  His  own  Son  to 
redeem  you. 

You  may  think  the  world  is  very  sweet,  and  very  beautiful, 
but  have  you  ever  felt 

THE  COLD  CHILL  OF  THE  TOUCH  OF  THE  WORLD? 

"Oh,  no,"  you  say;  "the  world  is  warm.  I  love  the  world, 
because  it  is  all  life;  it  is  all  light.  I  love  its  dances;  I  love 
its  follies;  I  love  the  fleshly  delights  in  which  I  find  my  gratifi- 
cation. I  love  wine;  I  love  women;  I  love  wealth;  I  love 
music;  I  love  the  dance;  I  love  these  things." 

Listen!     Listen! 

Every  cultivated  man  has  read  in  Plutarch's  Lives  of  one  who 
lived  in  ancient  Athens,  a  wonderful  man,  Pericles.  Pericles 
was  not  only  a  great  statesman,  orator  and  administrator,  but 
a  lover  of  his  people,  a  good,  great  military  genius.  He  was 
all  these  in  one,  and  a  man  of  great  beauty  and  attraction  of 
character.  All  admired  Pericles,  and  he  became  the  head  of 
the  Athenian  State. 


1 14  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

One  day  a  dark  shadow  crept  over  Greece.  It  crept  over 
Athens.  It  crept  over  the  Acropolis,  and  over  the  Parthenon, 
and  shadowed  all  the  gods.  It  crept  over  the  beautiful  statue 
of  Athena,  the  goddess  of  wisdom.  That  cloud  settled  down 
upon  Athens,  and  brought  desolation  and  despair  into  the 
homes.  It  was  a  cloud  of  death;  it  was  a  cloud  of  plague. 

It  entered  into  home  after  home,  and  many  thousands  were 
sick  and  died.  But  Pericles,  upright,  apparently  unmoved, 
went  about  the  business  of  the  State.  He  never  wept  a  tear, 
although  his  dearest  died.  The  counselors  in  the  State  died, 
the  people  died;  yet  he  attended  to  the  affairs  of  State  calmly, 
gave  orders  for  the  burial,  and  went  about  his  duties. 

They  all  admired  Pericles.  His  heart  was  so  calm,  and  his 
self-control  so  great. 

One  day  the  plague,  the  dark  shadow,  entered  his  own 
home,  and  one  after  another  died.  Yet  Pericles  shed  not  a 
tear. 

At  last  the  plague  laid  its  deadly  hand  upon  Paralus,  his 
only  son,  and  Pericles  stood  aghast;  for  all  his  hopes  were 
centered  in  that  lovely  youth. 

Paralus  grew  worse,  and  the  agonies  of  death  came.  At 
last  Paralus  lay  still  in  death.  Still  Pericles  shed  not  a  tear. 

POIGNANT    GRIEF    OF    PERICLES   AT   THE    DEATH    OF    HIS    SON. 

They  laid  out  the  body  upon  the  bier,  folded  the  hands 
upon  the  breast,  and  waited  for  Pericles,  as  was  the  custom  of 
the  Greeks,  to  bring  the  funeral  garland  and  lay  it  upon  the 
brow  of  his  dead  son.  Pericles  shed  not  a  tear.  He  took  up 
the  funeral  garland  and  advanced  to  the  bier  in  the  presence  of 
all  his  friends.  He  laid  the  funeral  garland  upon  the  head  of 
his  son,  and  as  he  did  it  his  fingers  felt  the  cold,  chill  touch  of 
death.  His  son  was  dead.  He  would  never  more  see  those 
lips  move,  those  eyes  open.  He  was  dead. 

Then  he  burst  into  tears  and  cried,  "Oh  gods,  why  did  ye 
take  him  and  leave  me?  Why  did  ye  not  take  me  and  leave 
him?  He  was  my  treasure,  my  all!"  And  he  cast  himself 
down  upon  the  earth  with  all  the  cry  of  a  heathen's  despair. 

Ah,  Pericles'  treasure  was  there.  Where  your  treasure  is, 
there  will  your  heart  be  also.  If  your  treasure  is  only  a  thing 
of  earth,  even  if  it  be  the  sweetest  woman  or  the  noblest  man 
that  lived,  and  it  is  gone,  and  that  is  all  you  have— oh,  what  a 
despair.  If  there  is  nothing  beyond,  if  Paralus  is  not  to  go 
into  the  heaven  before  you,  and  there  is  no  Christ  and  no  God, 
and  only  the  dark  river  of  Styx,  and  the  awful  darkness  of  the 
land  of  shadows  where  the  darkness  is  felt,  the  heart  simply 
breaks  with  woe,  what  despair! 

Is  that  all?  It  is  all  you  can  have  if  all  your  heart  has  been 
here.  You  are  going  out  into  the  night 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  115 

But,  friends,  if  your  heart  has  been  fixed  on  things  above, 
and  you  have  lived  for  God,  and  you  have  felt  His  love,  and 
the  thrill  of  the  Divine  indwelling  has  inspired  your  breast; 
if  you  have  loved  and  served  the  Christ,  if  you  have  minis- 
tered, then  if  your  loved  ones  should  pass  away,  one  by  one, 
you  would  say,  ,Not  lost,  but  gone  before.  You  would  know 
that  you  would  meet  them  again;  for  Christ  has  burst  the 
bands  of  death,  and  taken  to  Himself  the  glorified  of  all  the 
ages.  Heaven  is  open  to  those  who  have  received,  believed 
and  obeyed  the  Everlasting  Gospel. 

CALL. 

Every  man  and  woman  in  this  house  who  desires  to  obey 
that  Gospel,  stand.  (The  greater  part  of  the  audience  arose.) 

PRAYER   OF   CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be.  Help  me  to  bring  my  sin,  my  sorrow, 
my  sickness,  my  spirit,  my  soul,  my  body  unto  Thee.  Cleanse  me  and  make 
me  pure.  Help  me  to  believe  and  help  me  to  obey  the  Everlasting  Gospel 
of  salvation  and  healing  and  holiness,  and  take  me  to  heaven.  Make  me 
useful  while  I  live,  helping  the  sinful  and  the  sick  and  the  sorrowing,  for 
Jesus'  sake.  (All  repeat  the  prayer,  clause  by  clause,  after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

After  the  hymn  "Sin  No  More"  had  been  sung,  the  meet- 
ing was  closed  by  Dr.  Dowie  pronouncing  the 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil.  And  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 
grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you,  bless 
you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


ZION  S     VISION      OF     THE      BLESSED     HOPE     AND     THE     GLORIOUS 
APPEARING    OF    THE    GREAT    GOD    AND    OUR 

SAVIOUR    JESUS    CHRIST.  —Titus  2:11-13. 


War-ii6 


ZION'S    HOLY    WAR. 


OPENING    OF    SOUTH    SIDE     ZION    TABERNACLE, 
LORD'S  DAY  MORNING,  OCTOBER  29,  1899. 


PRELUDE— WELCOME  TO   SOUTH   SIDE  ZION   TABERNACLE. 

SERMON— THE  BEAUTY,  GLORY  AND  POWER  OF 

JESUS  THE  CHRIST. 


FROM  the  spacious  platform  to  the  door,  from  wall  to  wall, 
the  magnificent  floor  space  of  the  new  South  Side  Zion 
Tabernacle  was  crowded  with  an  audience  of  silent,  deeply- 
impressed  thousands  as  Zions  White-robed  Choir,  with  stately 
grace,  marched  the  full  length  of  the  great  edifice,  singing 
Dean  Alford's  glorious  processional,  "Ten  Thousand  Times 
Ten  Thousand,"  and  mounted  the  splendidly-arranged  choir 
gallery. 

Thus,  after  a  week  of  the  most  bitter  persecution,  which 
ended  in  one  case  in  bloodshed,  marked,  as  well,  by  glorious 
victories,  Zion  opened  on  the  South  Side  of  Chicago  a  Zion 
Tabernacle  with  seats  for  three  thousand  people  and  standing- 
room  for  five  hundred  more.  Outside  thousands  stood  for 
hours  waiting  for  an  opportunity  to  enter,  and  many  came,  saw 
the  crowds  outside,  and  went  away  disappointed. 

The  eloquent  and  powerful  address  by  the  General  Over- 
seer on  this  occasion  brought  conviction  to  many  a  heart. 
Many  a  face,  at  first  openly  sneering  or  idly  curious,  grew 
graver  and  more  thoughtful  as  the  glorious  Beauty,  Glory  and 
Power  of  Jesus  the  Christ  was  portrayed,  and  when  the  call  to 
repentance,  confession,  obedience  and  consecration  was  made, 
many  arose  and  with  hearts  aglow  gave  themselves  to  God. 

A.  w.  N. 

South  Side  Zion  Tabernacle,  Lord's  Day  Afternoon,  October  29,  1899. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing  Hymn  No.  44: 

Oh  wondrous  Name,  by  prophets  heard 

Long  years  before  His  birth; 
They  saw  Him  coming  from  afar, 

The  Prince  of  Peace  on  earth. 
War— 117 


118  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

Dr.  Dowie  then  read  in  the  Inspired  Word  of  God  in  the 
Gospel  of  our  Lord  and  Saviour  Jesus  Christ  according  to  St. 
Mark,  in  the  thirteenth  chapter. 

Prayer  was  then  offered  by  Dr.  Dowie,  after  which  he  said: 

WELCOME   TO    SOUTH   SIDE   ZION    TABERNACLE. 

My  brothers  and  sisters:  I  desire  very  heartily  to  welcome 
you  to  this  new  Zion  Tabernacle. 

I  am  not  a  stranger  to  many  hundreds  and  indeed  thou- 
sands of  you  who  are  now  present,  for  I  recognize  a  very  large 
proportion  of  my  own  regular  congregation  who  meet  in  Cen- 
tral Zion  Tabernacle  every  Lord's  Day,  in  which  place  we  seat 
about  three  thousand  three  hundred.  Sometimes  we  have  had 
four  thousand  five  hundred  persons  present,  especially  when 
the  papers  have  well  advertised  us.  When  they  have  been 
saying  naughty  things  about  us,  the  people  have  come  together 
and  expressed  their  interest  and  their  sympathy. 

Central  Zion  Tabernacle  has  had  within  its  walls  sometimes 
as  many  as  twelve  thousand  attendances  in  one  week.  I  sup- 
pose the  greater  proportion  of  you  have  been  in  some  of  the 
Zion  Tabernacles.  While  I  cannot,  of  course,  in  so  large  an 
audience  descry  every  face,  I  see  many  hundreds  and  possibly 
thousands  of  strangers  here  today. 

We  give  you  hearty  welcome,  and  say,  "Grace,  mercy  and 
peace  be  with  all  who  love  our  Lord  Jesus  in  sincerity." 

We  are  here  to  do  good.  We  are  here  to  preach  the  Ever- 
lasting Gospel,  and  preach  it  we  shall  while  there  is  breath  in 
this  body. 

You  can  find  in  the  current  number  of  LEAVES  OF  HEALING 
an  official  letter  from  my  pen,  which  was  written  yesterday 
morning  at  seven  o'clock,  after  a  hard  night's  work. 

I  had  been  so  greatly  refreshed  by  my  experiences  at  Ham- 
mond, Indiana,  that  I  was  able  to  sit  up  all  night.  (Laughter. 
Applause.) 

I  can  only  say  to  you  that  although  I  know — because  I  felt 
them — that  some  of  the  murderous  missiles  thrown  struck  me, 
yet  immediately  after  being  struck,  the  pain  had  passed  away. 
I  have  not  felt  a  single  pain  since.  (Amen.) 

In  fact,  I  am  feeling  so  wondrously  happy  that,  like  David, 
I  feel  I  could  leap  over  a  wall  and  run  through  a  troop. 
(Laughter.) 

I  was  told  that  there  were  boys  came  to  serenade  me  last 
night  in  Zion  Home;  but  I  never  heard  them:  for  I  was  sound 
asleep  when  the  police  dispersed  them.  They  were  medical 
students,  those  interesting  young  gentlemen  whose  seniors  are 
asking  for  legislation  which  would  place  the  whole  people  in 
the  hands  of  doctors  from  the  cradle  to  the  grave.  They  are 
working  to  get  laws  so  that  the  baby  cannot  be  born  without 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  IIQ 

them,  nobody  can  die  without  them,  and  that  it  will  be  wicked 
and  illegal  to  live  without  them.  These  interesting  gentlemen 
lined  up  on  La  Salle  Street  last  night  and  smashed  the  windows 
of  the  cars  just  in  order  to  show  how  highly  educated  they  were, 
and  how  exceedingly  well  prepared  they  were  to  take  your 
children  and  yourselves  in  hand  at  the  proper  time. 

These  are  the  coming  medical  men.  You  can  see  that  they 
were  properly  engaged  yesterday  in  illustrating  that  which  I 
know  to  be  the  fact,  that  their  brains  are  principally  at  the 
bottoms  of  their  legs.  (Applause.) 

I  am  very  sorry  for  the  community  which  is  to  be  handed 
over  to  them,  if  legislation  at  Springfield  can  do  it. 

ZION    WILL    NEVER    SUBMIT   TO    MEDICAL    OPPRESSION. 

No  legislation  ever  enacted  at  Springfield  can  give  the 
medical  fraternity  the  power  over  Zion  from  the  cradle  to  the 
grave.  (Applause.) 

We  are  going  to  put  our  spirits  and  our  souls  and  our  bodies 
into  the  hands  of  Him  who  gave  them  to  us,  and  He  will  keep 
them.  (Amen.) 

He  will  heal  them,  and  He  has  done  so.  We  bless  His 
Holy  Name. 

I  feel  very  kindly  to  everybody  . 

I  feel  kindly  to  the  press  which  treats  me  so  constantly 
with  cruelty  and  wicked  calumny. 

May  God  have  mercy  upon  that  generation  of  vipers,  the 
modern  scribes.  May  He  have  mercy  upon  the  people,  and 
soon  rescue  the  press  from  the  hands  of  these  filthy  monsters; 
from  those  who  are  stinking  with  tobacco  and  liquor,  who  are 
doing  no  thinking  and  no  praying;  who  are  just  simply  obey- 
ing the  will  of  those  who  pay  them  to  fight  upon  the  side  of 
the  wrong. 

May  God  deliver  the  young  men.  May  God  deliver  the 
people.  Some  of  these  days  Zion,  which  is  already  printing  a 
weekly  paper,  of  which  we  sometimes  print  as  many  as  forty 
thousand  copies  in  one  issue,  shall  be  able  to  print  her  own 
morning  and  evening  paper,  and  tell  the  news  without  telling 
lies.  (Amen.) 

May  God  grant  it. 

I  am  thankful  for  all  the  progress  Zion  is  making,  but  this 
is  only  the  infancy  of  things. 

If  God  shall  spare  my  life — and  I  believe  He  will  spare  it 
until  my  work  is  done — if  He  shall  spare  my  life,  then  I  give 
you  a  hearty  invitation  to  come  some  day  and  meet  with  me 
in  Zion  Temple  in  Zion  City.  There  we  shall  meet  you  twenty 
thousand  strong.  (Amen.  Applause.) 

I  am  so  glad  for  all  that  God  is  doing;  and  now,  dear  ones, 
let  me  give  you  the  announcements  for  the  week. 


120  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

I  will  speak  on  Wednesday  night,  November  1st,  in  this 
Tabernacle,  upon  "Zion's  Witness  Against  the  Sorcerers." 

The  word  in  scripture,  both  in  Hebrew,  kashaph,  and  in  the 
Greek,  Pharmakoi  (<f>apfMKol),  means  pharmacists,  makers  and 
venders  of  deadly  poisons. 

Now  that  is  Zion's  first  witness:  for  God  said  in  Malachi  3, 
"I  will  be  a  Swift  Witness  against  the  Sorcerers,"  the  pharma- 
cists. I  will  deliver  that  lecture  here,  which  the  young  men 
from  the  Medical  Colleges  on  the  West  Side  so  much  objected 
to,  and  rioted  over. 

That  is  passed  over,  and  the  people  and  the  authorities  are 
determined  that  there  shall  be  free  speech  under  the  American 
flag  in  the  City  of  Chicago.  (Applause.) 

Ifjfree  speech  were  denied,  the  fundamental  principles  of 
the  Constitution  would  be  denied. 

If  I  am  wrong,  there  is  a  way  to  settle  it. 

A   CHALLENGE. 

I  invite  the  medical  colleges,  and  the  Universities  of  Chicago 
and  Illinois,  to  whom  these  schools'  belong,  to  select  their 
champion;  to  get  the  ablest  and  most  eloquent  man  they  have, 
and  let  him  debate  the  question  with  me.  Let  us  take  the 
Auditorium,  in  which  I  preached  for  six  months.  Let  us  take 
it  for  a  week.  Let  their  champion  defend  Human  Healing, 
and  tell  the  best  that  can  be  said  for  it;  let  me  stand  up  for 
Divine  Healing,  and  let  God  and  the  people  judge.  (Amen. 
Applause.)  Is  that  not  a  fair  proposition? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — It  is  much  better  than  assafetida  and  iodoform, 
is  it  not? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — It  is  better  than  sticks,  and  stones,  and  brick- 
bats, and  railway  spikes,  and  things  of  that  kind  by  which  they 
endeavored  to  enlighten  my  understanding.  (Laughter.) 

I  think  that  argument  is  possible  to  good,  straight,  honest 
men,  but  when  a  cause  resorts  to  violence,  is  it  not  a  proof  that 
such  a  cause  is  on  its  last  legs? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — That  is  exactly  where  the  doctors  are. 

The  Lord  bless  them.  (Amen.)  I  want  to  see  every  one 
of  them  Doctors  of  Divinity.  If  they  will  get  converted,  I  will 
take  them  into  Zion  College  and  put  them  through  the  mill 
and  send  them  where  they  will  get  brickbats  and  railway 
spikes.  (Applause  and  laughter.) 

ZION    IS   WINNING   ALL   THE   TIME, 

and  we  are  very  happy.  On  Friday  evening  at  the  North  Side 
Zion  Tabernacle  I  will  speak  on  "Zion's  Witness  Against  the 
False  Swearers." 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  121 

In  connection  with  that  I  shall  take  up  Secret  Societies.  I 
know  that  is  going  to  make  a  fuss,  because  the  Mah-hah-bones 
are  very  numerous  and  very  ugly.  They  do  not  like  my  pour- 
ing contempt  upon  the  sacred  name  of  Hiram  Abiff,  the  Son 
of  the  Widow.  Hiram  Abiff,  the  Son  of  the  Widow,  never 
existed.  He  was  never  resurrected  by  Solomon.  Masonry  is 
the  biggest  humbug  and  the  most  abominable  mass  of  lying 
that  ever  came  to  curse  humanity.  May  God  rid  us  of  it. 

If  anybody  thinks  differently,  let  him  engage  the  biggest 
halls  in  Chicago  and  triumphantly  set  forth  the  glories  of 
Hiram  Abiff,  the  Son  of  the  Widow. 

I  am  going  to  press  the  battle  to  the  very  gates  of  hell  this 
next  week.  I  have  had  such  a  good  time  in  the  week  just 
closed  that  I  am  already  for  another.  It  is  going  to  be  a  hot  time. 

Zion  is  making  things  quite  interesting  for  many  people. 

I  am  so  glad  to  meet  you.  I  knew  I  should  meet  an  atten- 
tive and  well-bred  people  who  know  how  to  behave. 

I  said,  "When  I  come  to  the  South  Side,  I  know  I  shall  be 
met  with  Christian  courtesy  and  consideration." 

I  thank  you  for  coming  to  Zion  Tabernacle  today  to  greet 
us  upon  our  opening.  Whatever  may  be  your  opinions,  will 
you  please  to  remember  that  I  shall  say  nothing  in  anger  and 
nothing  in  malice ;  that  I  shall  speak  in  love,  and  I  have  a  right 
to  speak  the  truth,  have  I  not? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — You  will  all  give  me  that  right.  If  you  do  not, 
I  will  take  it  anyhow.  (Laughter.)  I  am  going  to  speak  as 
God  shall  give  me  grace.  We  are  going  to  understand  each 
other  better  and  better.  I  am  happy  to  be  among  those  of 
whom  this  choir  sang  today: 

Ten  thousand  times  ten  thousand, 

In  sparkling  raiment  bright, 
The  armies  of  the  ransomed  saints 

Throng  up  the  steeps  of  light; 
'Tis  finished — all  is  finished — 

Their  fight  with  death  and  sin. 
Fling  open  wide  the  golden  gates, 

And  let  the  victors  in! 

May  God  grant  that  every  one  of  you  will  enter  into  the 
Gates  of  that  City.  (Amen.) 

The  offerings  and  tithes  were  then  received. 

THE  BEAUTY,  GLORY  AND  POWER  OF  JESUS  THE 

CHRIST. 


INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  inspired 
by  Thy  Spirit,  and  be  acceptable  in  Thy  sight,  and  be  profitable  unto  this 
people,  and  unto  all  to  whom  these  words  shall  come,  in  this  and  every 
land,  in  this  and  all  the  coming  time,  till  Jesus  come,  for  His  sake.  Amen. 


122  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

I  desire  to  speak  to  you  today  on  "The  Beauty,  Glory  and 
Power  of  Jesus,  the  Risen  and  Glorified  Christ."  To  Him  is 
given  all  power  in  the  heavens  and  on  earth.  He  is  coming 
again,  and  it  may  be  very  soon.  His  Church  is  waiting  till  He 
comes. 

I  feel  this  afternoon  that  I  cannot  do  better  than  place  this 
subject  before  you,  first  by  reading  the  wondrously  beautiful 
verses  that  are  now  before  me. 

It  is  a  long  text,  but  there  is  not  a  word  of  it  which  is  not 
infinitely  better  than  any  exposition  I  can  make  of  it. 

I  call  your  attention  to  the  words  which  you  will  find  in  the 
fourth  chapter  of  the  Book  of  the  Revelation  of  Jesus  Christ 
which  He  gave  to  His  servant  John,  the  Apostle,  when  he  was 
on  the  Isle  of  Patmos,  a  prisoner  for  the  work  of  the  Lord  and 
for  the  testimony  of  Jesus  Christ. 

In  that  wonderful  Revelation  these  words  are  written  in  the 
fourth  chapter: 

TEXT. 

After  these  things  I  saw,  and  behold,  a  door  opened  in  heayen,  and  the 
first  Voice  which  I  heard,  a  Voice  as  of  a  trumpet  speaking  with  me,  one 
saying,  Come  up  hither,  and  I  will  show  thee  the  things  which  must  come 
to  pass  hereafter.  Straightway  I  was  in  the  Spirit :  and  behold,  there  was  a 
throne  set  in  heaven,  and  One  sitting  upon  the  throne ;  and  He  that  sat  was 
to  look  upon  like  a  jasper  stone  and  a  sardius :  and  there  was  a  rainbow 
round  about  the  throne,  like  an  emerald  to  look  upon.  And  round  about 
the  throne  were  four  and  twenty  thrones:  and  upon  the  thrones  I  saw  four 
and  twenty  elders  sitting,  arrayed  in  white  garments ;  and  on  their  heads 
crowns  of  gold.  And  out  of  the  throne  proceed  lightnings  and  voices  and 
thunders.  And  there  were  seven  lamps  of  fire  burning  before  the  throne, 
which  are  the  seven  Spirits  of  God ;  and  before  the  throne,  as  it  were  a 
glassy  sea  like  unto  crystal ;  and  in  the  midst  of  the  throne,  and  round 
about  the  throne,  four  living  creatures  full  of  eyes  before  and  behind.  And 
the  first  creature  was  like  a  lion,  and  the  second  creature  like  a  calf,  and 
the  third  creature  had  a  face  as  of  a  man,  and  the  fourth  creature  was  like 
a  flying  eagle.  And  the  four  living  creatures,  having  each  one  of  them  six 
wings,  are  full  of  eyes  round  about  and  within:  and  they  have  no  rest  day 
and  night,  saying,  Holy,  holy,  holy,  is  the  Lord  God,  the  Almighty,  which 
was  and  which  is  and  which  is  to  come.  And  when  the  living  creatures 
shall  give  glory  and  honor  and  thanks  to  Him  that  sitteth  on  the  throne,  to 
Him  that  liveth  for  ever  and  ever,  the  four  and  twenty  elders  shall  fall 
down  before  Him  that  sitteth  on  the  throne,  and  shall  worship  Him  that 
liveth  for  ever  and  ever,  and  shall  cast  their  crowns  before  the  throne,  say- 
ing, Worthy  art  Thou,  our  Lord  and  our  God,  to  receive  the  glory  and  the 
honor  and  the  power:  for  Thou  didst  create  all  things,  and  because  of  Thy 
will  they  were,  and  were  created. 

Then,  it  seems  to  me,  we  best  understand  this  when  we  take 
the  next  beautiful  words: 

And  I  saw  in  the  right  hand  of  Him  that  sat  on  the  throne  a  book  writ- 
ten within  and  on  the  back,  close  sealed  with  seven  seals.  And  I  saw  a 
strong  angel  proclaiming  with  a  great  voice,  Who  is  worthy  to  open  the 
book,  and  to  loose  the  seals  thereof?  And  no  one  in  the  heaven,  or  on  the 
earth,  or  under  the  earth,  was  able  to  open  the  book,  or  to  look  thereon. 
And  I  wept  much,  because  no  one  was  found  worthy  to  open  the  book,  or  to 
look  thereon:  and  one  of  the  elders  saith  unto  me,  Weep  not:  behold,  the 
Lion  that  is  of  the  tribe  of  Judah,  the  Root  of  David,  hath  overcome,  to 


ZION'S   HOLY    WAR.  123 

open  the  book  and  the  seven  seals  thereof.  And  I  saw  in  the  midst  of  the 
throne  and  of  the  four  living  creatures,  and  in  the  midst  of  the  elders,  a 
Lamb  standing,  as  though  it  had  been  slain,  having  seven  horns,  and  seven 
eyes,  which  are  the  seven  Spirits  of  God,  sent  forth  into  all  the  earth.  And 
He  came,  and  He  taketh  it  out  of  the  right  hand  of  Him  that  sat  on  the 
throne.  And  when  He  had  taken  the  book,  the  four  living  creatures  and 
the  four  and  twenty  elders  fell  down  before  the  Lamb,  having  each  one  a 
harp,  and  golden  bowls  full  of  incense,  which  are  the  prayers  of  the  saints. 
And  they  sing  a  new  song,  saying,  Worthy  art  thou  to  take  the  book,  and 
to  open  the  seals  thereof:  for  Thou  wast  slain,  and  didst  purchase  unto  God 
with  thy  blood  men  of  every  tribe,  and  tongue,  and  people,  and  nation,  and 
rnadest  them  to  be  unto  our  God  a  kingdom  and  priests ;  and  they  reign 
upon  the  earth.  And  I  saw,  and  I  heard  a  voice  of  many  angels  round 
about  the  throne  and  the  living  creatures  and  the  elders;  and  the  number 
of  them  was  ten  thousand  times  ten  thousand,  and  thousands  of  thousands; 
saying  with  a  great  voice,  Worthy  is  the  Lamb  that  hath  been  slain  to 
receive  the  power,  and  riches,  and  wisdom,  and  might,  and  honor,  and 
glory,  and  blessing.  And  every  created  thing  which  is  in  the  heaven,  and 
on  the  earth,  and  under  the  earth,  and  on  the  sea,  and  all  things  that  are  in 
them,  heard  I  saying,  Unto  Him  that  sitteth  on  the  throne,  and  unto  the 
Lamb,  be  the  blessing,  and  the  honor,  and  the  glory,  and  the  dominion,  for 
ever  and  ever.  And  the  four  living  creatures  said,  Amen.  And  the  elders 
fell  down  and  worshiped. 

This  is  the  Gospel  with  which  the  Christian  Catholic  Church 
in  Zion  goes  forth.  While  this  Church  has  a  Message  of  warn- 
ing, and  a  Message  of  most  solemn  rebuke  to  those  who  sin, 
the  greatest  and  best  part  of  the  Message  of  this  Church  is  the 
glorious  Gospel  which  tells  us  that  Jesus  still  lives;  that  He 
that  was  slain  hath  left  the  tomb;  that  He  lives  above  the 
utmost  rage  of  men  and  devils,  and  we  who  are  waiting  till  He 
comes,  are  chanting  the  song,  "Till  He  Come." 

"Till  He  come!"— Oh,  let  the  words 
Linger  on  the  trembling  chords, 
Let  the  "  little  while  "  between 
In  their  golden  light  be  seen ; 
Let  us  think  how  heaven  and  home 
Lie  beyond  that,  "Till  He  comer" 

Clouds  and  darkness  round  us  press; 
Would  we  have  one  sorrow  less? 
All  the  sharpness  of  the  cross, 
All  that  tells  the  world  is  loss, 
Death,  and  darkness,  and  the  tomb, 
Only  whisper,  "Till  He  come!" 

Till  He  come  we  shall  occupy.  We  shall  do  our  utmost  to 
bring  the  multitudes  for  whom  He  died  to  say,  "Worthy  is  the 
Lamb  that  was  slain." 

This  is  the  great  mission  of  Zion.  Let  me  talk  to  you  about 
my  King,  my  Lord,  my  God,  whom  I  love  above  all  else,  whom 
I  have  known  all  my  life.  I  know  Him  better,  and  love  Him 
dearer  every  day.  Let  me  talk  to  you  about  Jesus. 

THE    BEAUTY   OF   JESUS   THE    CHRIST. 

First,  His  Beauty.  In  the  Song  of  Solomon,  the  singer  is 
the  Church,  the  bride,  the  Lamb's  wife,  and  she  sings  in  that 


124  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

song  that  He  is  "The  Chiefest  among  ten  thousand,"  and  that 
"He  is  altogether  lovely." 

Should  not  we,  as  a  part  of  that  Church,  sing  that  song 
today?  When  He  came  to  this  earth,  they  saw  "no  beauty 
that  they  should  desire  Him."  He  was  a  "  Man  of  Sorrows, 
and  acquainted  with  sickness."  He  went  about  this  earth  doing 
good  and  healing  all  that  were  oppressed  of  the  Devil. 

Where'er  He  came,  from  every  street,  every  lane,  the  mul- 
titudes poured  forth  at  the  glad  cry,  "Jesus  of  Nazareth  passeth 
by."  His  hand  touched  the  sinful  and  the  sick,  and  His 
sympathetic  spirit  awoke  sorrow  in  the  contrite  hearts  of  the 
sinful.  All  who  ever  hated  Him  were  those  whose  "  craft  was  in 
danger"  from  His  work,  and  who  would  not  quit  their  sin. 

But  the  people  loved  Him  wherever  He  went.  They 
brought  out  their  sick,  their  sad,  their  sorrowing,  and  He 
blessed  all  who  came  in  faith.  The  Beauty  of  the  Lord  is 
seen  in  His  saving,  healing  and  cleansing  power.  The  Glory 
of  Jesus  is  shown  in  the  mighty  works  which  He  hath  wrought, 
is  working,  and  will  yet  work.  The  power  of  Jesus  is  shown  in 
the  fact  that  there  is  no  name  today  so  mighty  over  all  the 
earth  as  the  Name  of  Jesus.  Jesus,  the  Name  high  over  all,  is 
still  the  mightiest  Name  in  earth  and  in  heaven. 

Now  let  me  tell  you  what  I  know  of  His  Glory,  and  what  I 
have  seen  of  His  Power. 

I  feel  on  this  Lord's  Day,  which  in  Zion  is  always  testimony 
day,  to  tell  you  something  of  Him  whom  I  love  so  well,  and 
whose  Glory  and  Power  I  have  realized  so  largely. 

Young  men,  I  am  no  longer  young  in  years.  Yet  I  feel  so 
young  in  heart  that  I  can  understand  something  of  the  words, 
"A  man  is  just  as  old  as  he  feels."  If  I  am  no  older  than  I 
feel,  then  I  am  very  young  today. 

I  am  in  sympathy  with  the  young  man.  I  almost  wish  I  were 
in  age  by  his  side,  so  that  I  might  have  so  much  of  life  before 
me  in  this  glorious  time  in  which  we  live,  when  the  "hidings  of 
God's  power"  have  been  revealed  in  air  and  earth  and  sea; 
when  the  wondrous  lightnings  have  been  chained;  when  we 
can  transmit  thought  and  even  speech  from  land  to  land,  and 
when  the  wireless  telegraphy  is  carrying  thought  over  the 
nations  and  over  the  seas. 

God  is  working  everywhere  in  these  days  which  are  dawn- 
ing upon  us.  I  hope  to  live  yet  to  see  them  more  gloriously 
unfolded.  My  young  brothers,  I  would  say  to  you, 

BE   EARNEST,    BE   EARNEST. 

Do  not  fritter  away  these  days  which  are  so  precious,  and 
which  you  can  use  to  so  much  advantage.  Remember  that 
today  this  wonderful  blessing  is  coming  to  you  in  the  Name  of 
Him  who  has  given  us  all  these  things;  who  is  all  the  Foun- 


ZION'S   HOLY    WAR.  12$ 

tain  of  wisdom  and  glory  and  power.  Oh,  how  simple  Jesus  is, 
in  His  beautiful  adaptation  to  our  necessities;  how  kind  He  is; 
how  considerate  and  condescending  He  is. 

If  we  only  knew  Him  as  a  great  King  clothed  in  the  awful 
majesties  of  heaven,  and  controlling  the  destinies  of  earth  with 
an  omnipotent  hand,  we  might  faint  before  Him.  But  oh! 
how  tender  He  is  when  we  know  that  He,  the  Lamb  that  was 
slain,  is  still  going  about  doing  good,  and  that  He  is  standing  at 
the  heart  of  the  sinner  today,  and  saying: 

Behold,  I  stand  at  the  door  and  knock;  if  any  man  hear  My  voice  and 
open  the  door,  I  will  come  in  to  him,  and  will  sup  with  him,  and  he  with 

I  desire  you  to  see  today  that  He  whose  head  once  was 
crowned  with  thorns,  whose  hands  were  once  pierced  for  you, 
whose  feet  were  once  pierced  for  you,  whose  human  heart  once 
beat  on  earth  for  us,  is  still  walking  through  the  streets  and 
lanes  of  the  cities.  He  is  knocking  today  at  your  heart  in  this 
place.  The  pierced  hand  still  knocketh,  and  beneath  the 
crowned  brow  beam  the  patient  eyes,  so  tender,  of  thy  Saviour 
waiting  there.  Send  Him  not  away;  it  is  perhaps  the  last  time 
for  you  on  earth.  Oh!  how  condescending  that  He  should 
knock  at  the  door  of  the  poor  sinner's  heart. 

This  Christ  is  still  the  same  Saviour  and  still  the  same 
Healer  as  of  old.  He  goes  about,  as  He  did  in  Galilee,  cast- 
ing devils  out  and  healing  all  who  are  oppressed. 

His  touch  has  still  its  ancient  power; 
No  word  from  Him  can  fruitless  fall. 

Oh,  that  He  would  bless  us  in  this  evening  hour,  and  in  His 
mercy  heal  us  all ! 

He  is  just  the  same.  There  is  no  change:  for  Jesus  Christ 
is  the  same  yesterday,  today  and  forever.  He  is  with  us 
always. 

I  desire  to  tell  you  that 

HE    IS   WAITING   TO    ENTER    EVERY   SHADOWED    HOME. 

Where'er  the  sick  may  be,  there  He  stands.  He  still  says 
as  of  old,  "Wilt  thou  be  made  whole?"  He  is  able,  He  is  will- 
ing, and  He  is  waiting,  and  He  is  longing  to  bless.  There  is  no 
change  in  Him.  He  is  unchangeable  and  present.  ^ 

The  healing  of  His  seamless  dress, 

Is  by  all  beds  of  pain; 
We  touch  Him  in  life's  throng  and  press, 

And  we  are  whole  again. 

He  is  the  Saviour,  He  is  the  Healer.  He  is  the  Cleanser  of 
the  passions  which  are  within  the  young,  and  alas!  within  the 
old,  which  come  to  them  by  inheritance  from  those  who  sinned. 

The  Christ  comes  today  and  says,  "It  is  I ;  be  not  afraid." 
If  you  will  let  Him  in  He  will  cleanse  your  heart  from  sin. 
He  will  take  away  these  fierce  passions  which  beat,  and  bruise, 


126  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

and  torment,  and  destroy  until  you  are  bowed  down  with  shame 
and   sorrow.     He  will   make  you  His  own  free  men  and  free 
women  in  Himself  and  by  the  Spirit  of  His  Power. 
Let  me  talk  of  His  Power. 

THE    POWER    OF   JESUS   THE    CHRIST. 

His  Power  is  adequate  to  all  our  possible  necessities.  His 
Power  is  commensurate  in  duration  with  all  the  eternities. 
His  Power  is  commensurate  and  coextensive  with  the  omnipo- 
tence and  omnipresence  of  God  the  Father  Himself,  who 
hath  committed  all  things  into  His  hands. 

That  same  Christ  we  preach — no  longer  a  Man  of  Sorrows, 
but  forever  a  Man  of  Sympathies. 

No  longer  crowned  with  thorns,  He  is  crowned  with  Glory 
and  Honor. 

No  longer  weak,  buffeted  and  bleeding,  bearing  the  cross 
and  dying  in  shame. 

HE    NOW   SITS   UPON    THE   THRONE    OF   UNIVERSAL   EMPIRE. 

He  is  ruling  throughout  the  heavens,  and  He  will  rule 
throughout  the  earth.  (Amen.) 

He  is  coming,  blessed  be  His  Name.  He  is  coming,  and  we 
are  waiting  till  He  come.  The  kingdoms  of  this  earth  shall 
become  the  kingdoms  of  our  God  and  of  His  Christ. 

In  the  City  of  Edinburgh,  a  few  years  ago,  this  touching 
little  story  was  told  in  my  presence.  Let  me  give  it  to  you. 

A    BEAUTIFUL     STORY     ILLUSTRATING     JESUS    AT      THE      SINNER'S 

HEART. 

"I  was  visiting,"  said  that  good  man,  Arnot,  "amongst  my 
poor,  sick  people  in  the  wynds  and  closes  of  Edinburgh  here 
last  week.  I  stood  away  back,  and  looked  up  at  the  high 
houses  to  see  whether  Betty,  my  good  old  Betty  Gordon,  an 
aged  saint  of  God,  were  at  home  or  not.  I  knew  that  she  was  at 
home  by  this  sign:  that  her  little  flower-pots  were  out  upon  her 
windowsill;  that  the  blind  was  up.  I  knew  Betty  was  in;  for 
when  she  went  away  she  carefully  took  in  the  flower-pots  and 
pulled  down  the  blinds. 

"I  knew  that  she  was  poor  and  needy;  but  she  trusted 
God,  and  I  was  so  glad  that  somebody  had  given  me  some 
money  that  morning  that  I  might  give  to  the  poor.  I  calcu- 
lated what  Betty's  rent  would  amount  to  for  a  month,  and  I 
put  that  aside  in  my  pocket  with  other  moneys  for  the  poor. 

"I  went  into  the  close,  climbed  up  the  winding  stone  stairs, 
and  panting,  I  at  last  reached  Betty's  door.  I  knocked.  At 
first  I  knocked  softly,  but  there  was  no  answer.  Then  I 
knocked  louder,  but  there  was  no  answer.  Then  I  pulled 
the  bell,  and  it  rang  through  the  bed-rooms,  but  there  was  no 
answer.  At  last  I  said,  'Betty  forgot  to  pull  down  the  blinds, 


ZION'S   HOLY    WAR.  127 

and  she  has  gone  out,  leaving  her  flower-pots  there.  What  a 
pity!'  Then  I  went  down  the  stairs. 

"The  next  morning  I  went  back,  because  I  knew  Betty 
needed  help,  and  knocked  at  the  door.  After  a  little  waiting 
Betty  came  and  opened  it. 

"'Oh/  she  said,  'is  it  you,  Mr.  Arnot?  I  am  so  glad  to  see 
you!  Come  in?' 

"I  went  in,  and  sat  down.  I  offered  prayer,  and  the  sweet 
face  of  Betty,  framed  with  her  white  hair,  looked  to  me  like  the 
face  of  an  angel. 

"But  there  were  tears  in  her  eyes,  and  a  little  look  of  care 
there  that  I  had  not  seen. 

"I  said,  'Betty,  woman,  what  are  you  crying  for?'  She  was 
crying.  'O,'  she  said,  'Mr.  Arnot,  I  am  so  afraid;  I  am  so 
afraid  of  the  landlord.  He  will  come,  perhaps,  today.  He 
came  yesterday  and  I  had  na  the  rent,  and  I  didna  open  the 
door,  and  now  I  am  afraid  of  his  coming;  for  he  is  a  hard 
man.'  'Betty,  what  time  did  he  come  yesterday?'  'He  came 
between  eleven  and  twelve  o'clock,'  she  said.  'I  remember, 
because  I  looked  at  the  clock,  and  it  was  twenty-five  minutes 
to  twelve.' 

"'Well,  Betty,'  said  Mr.  Arnot,  'it  was  na  the  landlord;  it 
was  me,  and  I  brought  to  you,  Betty,  this  money  to  pay  your 
rent.  Take  it  and  be  thankful.' 

She  looked  at  me,  and  said,  'Oh,  was  it  you?  Did  you 
bring  me  that  money  to  pay  my  rent,  and  I  kept  the  door 
steekit  (that  is  "I  kept  it  shut")  against  you,  and  I  wouldn't 
let  you  in?  And  I  heard  your  knocking,  and  I  heard  your  ring- 
ing, and  I  said,  "That  is  the  landlord.  I  wish  he  would  go 
away."  And  it  was  my  ain  meenister.  It  was  my  ain  Lord 
who  had  sent  ye  as  His  messenger,  and  I  wouldna  let 
ye  in.'" 

That  is  just  like  a  sinner.  When  Jesus  is  knocking  at  his 
heart,  he  treats  him  as  if  He  were  a  hard  landlord  and  will  not 
let  Him  in. 

Oh,  let  me  beseech  of  you, 

LET   THE   SAVIOUR    IN1. 

He  is  knocking  at  your  heart's  door;  not  to  bring  judg- 
ment, but  to  bring  mercy,  to  bring  salvation,  to  bring  healing, 
to  bring  holiness.  Why  will  you  not  open  the  door? 

If  any  man  hear  My  voice  and  open  the  door,  I  will  come  in  to  him, 
and  will  sup  with  him,  and  he  with  Me, 


The  song  is  ringing  throughout  the  heavens: 

Unto  the  Lamb  be  the  blessing,  and  the  honor,  and  the 
ninion,  for  ever  and  ever. 

Let  it  ring  through  the  earth  today.     (Amen.) 


128  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

Open  wide  the  gates  of  all  your  hearts,  and  let  the  King  of 
Glory  in.  (Amen.) 

CALL. 

All  who  desire  Him  to  enter,  rise  and  tell  Him  so.  (A 
great  company  of  thousands  arose.) 

PRAYER    OF   CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me 
power  to  do  right,  no  matter  what  it  costs.  Give  me  power  to  do  right  to 
my  fellowman ;  to  confess,  to  restore ;  to  do  right  to  all ;  to  do  right  in 
Thy  sight.  Give  me  Thy  Holy  Spirit.  Cleanse  my  spirit,  and  my  soul,  and 
my  body.  Enter  into  my  being;  take  possession.  Lead  me  into  the  path 
of  Salvation,  and  of  Healing,  and  of  Holiness,  and  by  and  by  let  me  cast 
my  crown  at  Thy  feet,  and  hail  Thee,  Lord  of  all.  Hear  me,  my  Father, 
for  Jesus'  sake.  (All  repeat  the  prayer,  clause  by  clause,  after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

Did  you  mean  it? 
Audience— "Yes." 
Dr.  Dowie — Will  you  live  it? 
Audience — "Yes." 

After  the  hymn  "Sin  No  More"  had  been  sung,  the  services 
were  closed  by  Dr.  Dowie  pronouncing  the 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil.  And  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 
grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide ;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you,  bless 
you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


ZION'S    HOLY    WAR. 


SERMON  — THE    BEAUTIFUL    GATE    OF    DIVINE    HEALING. 


ON  the  evening  of  Lord's  Day,  October  29th,  the  day  of  the 
glorious  opening  of  the  new  South  Side  Zion  Tabernacle, 
the  General  Overseer  spoke  again,  as  he  had  in  the  afternoon, 
to  an  audience  which  filled  every  chair  and  all  the  standing- 
room  in  the  great  building,  thus  making  a  total  of  over  seven 
thousand  attendances  at  the  two  services.  Besides  these,  there 
was  an  uncounted  multitude  again  turned  away  for  lack  of 
room. 

Several  thousand  of  these  remained  outside  of  the  Taber- 
nacle during  the  entire  period  of  the  service.  Public  interest  on 
the  South  Side  of  the  city  was  widely  and  deeply  aroused. 

The  people  outside  discussed  "Zion  and  Dowie"  from 
every  point  of  view,  and,  inasmuch  as  many  members  of  the 
Church  could  not  obtain  admission,  they  became  the  centers 
of  many  groups  and  gave  much  information  to  the  thousands 
of  inquirers  around  the  Tabernacle. 

There  was  a  strong  force  of  police  present;  but  no  cause 
for  their  interference  with  the  orderly  crowds  took  place. 

The  wonderful  story  of  the  Beatiful  Gate  of  Divine  Healing 
was  told  with  graphic  power  by  the  General  Overseer,  and,  as 
is  always  the  case,  the  preaching  of  the  Gospel  which  included 
Divine  Healing  brought  to  repentance,  confession  and  con- 
secration many  who  were  never  affected  by  a  Gospel  of 
salvation  only.  A.  w.  N. 

South  Side  Zion  Tabernacle,  Lord's  Day  Evening,  October  29,  1899. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing  Hymn  Number  6: 

Behold  a  fountain  deep  and  wide, 

Behold  its  onward  flow ; 
'Twas  opened  in  the  Saviour's  side 

And  cleanseth  "  white  as  snow." 

Dr.  Dowie  then  read  from  the  Inspired  Word  of  God  in  the 
Book  of  the  Acts  of  the  Apostles  in  the  third  chapter. 

Prayer  was  then  offered  by  Dr.  Dowie,  after  which  the 
announcements  were  made. 

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130 


ZIONS   HOLY    WAR. 


Z ION'S  HOLY   WAR.  131 

Dr.  Dowie  then  said:  God  has  been  very  gracious  to  us  in 
this 

HOLY    WAR    AGAINST    THE    HOSTS    OF    HELL    IN    CHICAGO. 

I  am  glad  to  have  had  the  joy  of  opening  this  new  Zion 
Tabernacle.  I  may  tell  this  company  that  we  have  leased  it 
for  five  years,  and  that  we  are  making  it  a  pleasant  meeting 
place. 

I  desire  to  thank  every  one  connected  with  the  arrange- 
ments for  these  meetings.  I  thank  the  men  whom  we  put  in 
here  just  about  a  week  or  ten  days  ago  to  take  this  place  and 
transform  it  into  what  you  now  see  it.  Deacon  Harper,  Zion's 
Superintendent  of  Construction,  deserves  special  thanks  and 
mention.  The  work  has  been  almost  entirely  done  with  Zion 
men  in  all  the  trades.  Zion  has  large  constructive  powers. 

This  is  the  third  Zion  Tabernacle  which  I  have  opened  in 
Chicago  within  this  month;  and  a  number  have  been  opened 
in  other  States. 

THE  BEAUTIFUL  GATE  OF  DIVINE  HEALING. 


INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight,  and  be  profitable  unto  this  people,  O  Lord,  my  Strength 
and  my  Redeemer. 

In  the  passage  which  I  read  to  you  in  the  third  chapter  of 
the  Acts  of  the  Apostles  and  at  the  tenth  verse  we  read  these 
words  again: 

TEXT. 

And  they  took  knowledge  of  him,  that  it  was  he  which  sat  for  alms  at 
the  Beautiful  Gate  of  the  Temple:  and  they  were  filled  with  wonder  and 
amazement  at  that  which  had  happened  unto  him. 

I  desire  to  take  you  back  to  that  wondrous  afternoon  in 
Jerusalem,  at  the  great  Temple  of  Jehovah,  well  nigh  nineteen 
centuries  ago.  The  life  of  Jesus  Christ  on  earth  in  the  flesh 
had  ended.  Like  other  prophets,  He  had  been  slain.  Jesus 
said  to  the  people:  "Ye  are  sons  of  them  that  slew  the 
prophets."  Stephen,  the  first  Martyr  in  the  Apostolic  Church, 
asked  his  cruel  judges,  "Which  of  the  prophets  did  not  your 
fathers  persecute?  and  they  killed  them  which  showed  before 
of  the  coming  of  the  Righteous  One,  of  whom  ye  have  become 
betrayers  and  murderers." 

In  every  age 

ALL  GREAT  PROPHETS  HAVE  SEALED  THEIR  TESTIMONY  WITH 

THEIR  BLOOD; 

and  Jesus  Christ  suffered  death   as  the    consequence  of    His 
good  and  holy  life. 

The  Beautiful  Gate  in  the  Temple  of  Herod  was  a  wonder- 
ful gate,  and  the  Temple  service  a  wonderful  service. 


132  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

Christ  had  died.  He  had  risen  from  the  dead.  The  Holy 
Spirit  had  come.  Multitudes  had  been  saved;  at  Pentecost 
three  thousand  in  one  day.  But  there  was  no  Divine  Healing. 

Up  to  this  time  it  was  all  Salvation.  Divine  Healing  had 
taken  no  place  in  the  Apostolic  Church.  Had  it  not  come 
forth  Christ's  words,  "The  works  that  I  do  shall  ye  do  also," 
would  not  have  been  true. 

Peter  and  John  went  up  to  the  Temple  at  the  hour  of  prayer, 
the  ninth  hour  of  the  Jewish  day.  That  was  three  o'clock  in 
the  afternoon:  for  the  day  was  calculated  from  six  in  the 
morning  until  six  at  night.  The  ninth  hour  was  therefore  three 
o'clock. 

At  three  o'clock  that  afternoon  these  great  apostles  went 
up  to  the  Temple  to  meet  with  vast  numbers  of  Christians, 
with  whom  they  could  meet  nowhere  else. 

They  were  not  thinking  about  anything  special  going  to 
happen.  It  is  always  the  unexpected  that  happens.  The 
unexpected  happened  in  this  case.  The  Beautiful  Gate  of 
Divine  Healing  was  opened  wide  that  afternoon  when  Peter 
and  John  went  up  to  the  Temple. 

When  they  had  reached  the  Beautiful  Gate  of  the  Temple 
they  found  there,  as  was  the  custom  in  that  day,  many  beggars 
waiting  for  alms. 

These  beggars  had  a  whining  cry  which  was  something  like 
these  words,  taken  from  the  Book  of  Job: 

Have  pity  upon  me,  have  pity  upon  me,  Oh  ye  my  friends ; 
For  the  hand  of  God  hath  touched  me. 

They  thought  in  their  ignorance  that  their  diseases  were  the 
work  of  God.  They  did  not  know  what  Jesus  was  preaching, 
namely:  that  He  had  come  to  destroy  the  works  of  the  Devil, 
and  that  disease  was  a  consequence  of  sin,  and  that  sin  was  the 
•vork  of  Satan,  and  that  He  went  about,  as  the  Apostle  Peter 
afterwards  said,  doing  good  and  healing  all  that  were  oppressed 
of  the  Devil,  for  God  was  with  Him. 

Now  when  Peter  and  John  came  up  to  the  gate  they  found 
this  man.  He  was  over  forty  years  of  age,  probably  not  less 
than  forty-two. 

A  RETROSPECTIVE  GLANCE  AT  THE  LIFE  OF  THE  BEGGAR  AT 
THE  BEAUTIFUL  GATE. 

That  man  was,  therefore,  a  little  cripple  boy  of  about  nine 
years  old  when  Christ  was  born  at  Bethlehem.  He  had  heard 
of  the  massacre  of  the  little  babies  at  Bethlehem  when  Herod 
was  trying  to  kill  the  infant  Christ.  He  was  shocked  as  the 
children  were  killed  by  the  cruelty  of  that  horrible  king. 
Every  Jewish  child  knew  that  terrible  story  of  how  that 
attempt  to  kill  the  infant  King  had  cost  the  lives  of  so  many 
lovely  babes. 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  133 

This  little  boy  had  then  grown  up.  He  had  heard  in  his 
boyhood  that  Jesus  had  come,  and  that  Herod  had  failed  to  kill 
Him.  He  had  heard  of  the  disappearance  of  Christ,  whom  the 
Angels,  and  the  Shepherds,  and  the  Wise  Men  from  the  East 
had  seen  and  worshiped.  • 

When  Christ  came  to  the  Temple  at  twelve  years  of  age, 
this  poor  man  was  twenty-one.  Now  he  had  never  walked. 
He  had  been  lame  in  both  his  limbs  from  his  mother's  womb. 
At  twenty-one  years  of  age  he  was,  probably,  a  beggar;  possi- 
bly he  was  one  earlier. 

When  Christ  at  last  came  to  the  Temple  as  the  Messiah,  at 
the  age  of  thirty,  this  man  was  thirty-nine  years  of  age. 

He  had  heard  about  John  the  Baptist's  preaching.  John 
the  Baptist,  the  greatest  of  prophets,  as  Jesus  said,  had  preached 
at  the  fords  of  the  Jordan.  Herod  himself,  and  the  corrupt 
and  sinful  woman  Herodias,  were  compelled  to  listen.  That 
woman  had  to  sit  still  upon  her  throne  of  power  while  John 
the  Baptist  smote  her  on  the  face  for  her  adultery.  He  said 
to  Herod,  "It  is  not  lawful  for  thee  to  have  her,"  for  Herod 
had  a  kind  of  Chicago  or  South  Dakota  divorce. 

He  had  married  his  brother  Philip's  wife,  and  the  horrible 
abomination  of  adultery  was  enthroned  in  Herod's  kingdom. 

JOHN   THE    BAPTIST    HAD    PROCLAIMED   JESUS    AS    THE    CHRIST. 

Up  to  the  time  that  Jesus  came  down  to  be  baptized,  John 
the  Baptist  had  not  known  He  was  the  Christ.  John  the  Bap- 
tist did  not  know  that  he  himself  was  Elijah,  although  Christ 
said  he  was,  and  He  knew  better  than  John. 

John  said: 

I  knew  Him  not:  but  He  that  sent  me  to  baptize  with  water,  He  said 
unto  me,  Upon  whom  thou  shalt  see  the  Spirit  descending,  and  abiding 
upon  Him,  the  same  is  He  that  baptizeth  with  the  Holy  Spirit.  And  I  have 
seen,  and  have  borne  witness  that  this  is  the  Son  of  God. 

That  was  a  very  important  statement,  for  John  gave  up  his 
own  office  and  commanded  all  to  follow  Jesus.  Very  shortly 
after  that  John  was  seized  in  a  desert  of  Judea  by  Herod  and 
borne  off  to  the  Castle  of  Machaerus  and  put  in  the  dungeons 
there.  Subsequently  his  life  was  taken  by  a  trick  of  Herodias, 
who  got  Herod,  when  drunk,  to  promise  that  he  would  give 
her  daughter  whatever  she  asked,  to  even  one-half  of  his  king- 
dom, for  her  beautiful  dancing.  She  asked  for  John  the  Bap- 
tist's head  in  a  charger.  The  voluptuous  and  seductive  dancer 
is  often  the  vilest  and  most  cruel  of  monsters  in  woman's  form; 
and  beautiful  Jezebels  and  Herodiases  in  every  age  thirst  for 
the  heart's  blood  of  the  prophets  who  reprove  them  and  call 
them  to  repentance.  Beauty  is  often  the  covering  of  a  Beast. 
The  face  of  the  Sphinx  has  the  body  of  a  brute.  Merely  nat- 
ural beauty  is  ever  cold  and  animal  and  cruel.  True  beauty  is 
in  the  spirit  which  is  awakened  into  Divine  Life  by  Divine 


134  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

Love,  and  the  Light  of  that  beauty  is  that  of  a  Star  which  never 
fades  or  grows  dim — it  shines  with  eternal  radiance. 

John  the  Baptist  had  proclaimed  Jesus  to  be  the  Christ,  the 
Lamb  of  God  that  taketh  away  the  Sin  of  the  World. 

As  time  went  on  the  people  saw  increasingly  that  Jesus  of 
Nazareth  was  the  Christ  of  God,  the  Saviour,  Healer  and 
Cleanser  of  all  who  came  unto  God  by  Him. 

The  Scribes  of  that  day  did  not  want  the  people  to  know  it. 
The  Pharisees  of  that  day  did  not  want  the  people  to  know  it. 
They  wanted  to  keep  back  the  knowledge  that  Jesus  the  Mighty 
Prophet  of  Nazareth  who  was  going  about  doing  good,  and 
saving  and  healing  the  people,  was  the  Christ  of  God.  They 
therefore  told  lies  about  Him. 

They  said  He  was  a  bad  man.  They  said  the  things  that  He 
did  were  done  through  Beelzebub,  the  prince  of  devils.  They 
said  it  openly  in  the  Jerusalem  Daily  Lyre,  and  the  Jerusalem 
Tribune,  and  the  Jerusalem  Joiirnal,  and  the  Jerusalem  Inter 
Ocean,  or  their  ancient  equivalents. 

They  sent  forth  these  statements  just  as  they  do  about  me 
today.  Why,  the  most  absurd  things  are  said  regarding  me. 
The  other  day  the  papers  told  the  story  that  I  was  down  at 
Harvey  and  visited  a  child  who  was  dying.  They  said  that  I 
screamed,  "That  child  is  not  sick.  Get  her  up."  When  she 
would  not  get  up  they  said  I  tried  to  make  her,  and  when  she 
could  not  walk  I  threw  her  upon  the  bed.  They  said  that  she 
would  not  eat,  and  that  I  got  some  pie  and  apple  and  stuffed 
it  down  her  throat,  and  that  she  died  soon  after. 

All  that  was  said  in  the  papers,  mostly  in  the  Daily  Record 
Lyre  and  the  Tribune.  At  that  time  I  was  one  hundred  and 
fifty  miles  away,  on  the  other  side  of  Lake  Michigan. 

I  was  not  near  Harvey  at  that  time.  I  never  saw  the  child 
when  sick  in  her  home,  and  never  touched  her  there. 

Only  a  week  ago  they  said  that  Dr.  Gentry,  who  has  a 
mission  hall  in  Englewood,  this  portion  of  the  city,  delivered 
an  eloquent  discourse  against  me.  I  read  last  Sabbath  after- 
noon Dr.  Gentry's  letter,  in  which  he  said  he  had  not  said  one 
single  word  of  it.  And  so  the  thing  goes  on. 

They  told  similar  lies  about  Jesus. 

When  a  man  like  this  poor  man,  who  had  never  walked, 
would  be  sitting  there  at  the  Beautiful  Gate  of  the  Temple, 
and  Rabbi  Eliezer,  and  Rabbi  Simeon,  and  Rabbi  This  and 
Rabbi  That,  members  of  the  great  council,  would  go  by,  the 
poor  man  would  say,  "Rabbi,  will  you  not  tell  me  whether 
Jesus  is  a  good  man  or  a  bad  man?"  "He  is  a  bad  man," 
would  be  the  invariable  reply. 

That  is  what  the  Methodists  and  Baptists  and  Presbyteri- 
ans of  that  time  said.  They  likewise  lie  about  His  work 
today  because  their  churches  are  in  danger. 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  135 

They  have  not  been  preaching  the  Gospel,  and  are  being 
found  out. 

THE    DENOMINATIONAL    CHURCHES   ARE   DYING. 

The  Rock  River  Conference  reported  an  increase  last  year 
of  one  thousand  three  hundred  members,  but  they  reported  a 
loss  the  previous  year  of  a  thousand,  therefore  they  only 
gained  three  hundred  members  in  two  years.  There  are  three 
hundred  churches  in  the  Rock  River  Conference,  hence  they 
gained  exactly  one-half  of  a  member  for  each  church  for  a 
whole  year.  (Laughter.) 

They  are  dying.  In  Zion  I  have  baptized  with  these  hands 
more  than  seven  thousand  persons.  Of  these  more  than  one 
thousand  have  been  Roman  Catholics.  More  than  another 
thousand  have  been  Lutherans,  and  the  rest  came  from  various 
churches,  and  mostly  from  the  world. 

So  these  rabbis  told  the  lame  beggar  that  Jesus  was  a  bad 
man. 

"But,  Rabbi,"  said  the  beggar,  "there  was  a  blind  beggar 
here  who  went  to  Him.  Jesus  sent  him  to  the  pool  of  Siloam, 
and  he  received  sight." 

"We  threw  that  man  out  of  the  synagogue." 

"Why  did  you  throw  him  out?" 

"Because  he  acknowledged  Jesus.  If  you  acknowledge 
Jesus,  we  will  throw  you  out,  too." 

The  poor  fellow  did  not  know  what  to  do.  Jesus  passed  to 
and  fro,  in  and  out  of  the  Beautiful  Gate,  but  this  man  was 
afraid  to  touch  the  hem  of  His  garment  for  fear  the  would  be 
thrown  out  of  the  Temple;  for  fear  that  he  would  not  longer 
get  the  little  pittance  that  he  got  as  a  beggar. 

Friends,  how  often 

PEOPLE  ERR  BECAUSE  THEY  FEAR  TO  TRUST  GOD. 

No  man  ever  trusted  God  for  bread  and  went  hungry.  God 
protects  those  who  trust  in  Him  for  protection.  All  who  obey 
God  get  blessing. 

God  will  cover  your  head  in  the  day  of  battle,  as  he  covered 
mine  the  other  night  at  Hammond,  Indiana.  There  were 
people  there  who  would  have  died  for  me,  and  some  of  them 
very  nearly  did.  I  thank  God  for  their  love  and  loyalty.  I 
had'  been  willing  to  die  for  them,  and  they  knew  it. 

But  it  was  hard  for  that  poor  man  to  be  told  on  the  one 
side  that  Christ  was  a  good  man,  that  Christ  was  good  and 
merciful;  and  on  the  other  that  He  was  an  incarnate  devil. 
Christ  passed  out  to  His  cross,  and,  perhaps,  amidst  the  curses 
and  the  maledictions  that  followed  Him,  were  the  curses  of 
this  man. 

But  after  Jesus  died  and  arose  again,  the  Holy  Ghost  came, 
and  Peter  preached  that  wonderful  sermon  when  three  thou- 


136  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

sand  persons  were  saved  in  one  day.  Then  the  Church  was 
full  of  life,  and  full  of  love,  and  full  of  gladness,  and  the  mem- 
bers went  up  everyday  to  the  Temple. 

Did  you  ever  think  of  it?  Why  did  not  the  Pharisees  per- 
secute the  Church  then?  Because  the  Church  then  was 
preaching  only  salvation,  and  if  the  Church  preaches  only 
salvation,  the  Devil  does  not  care  a  pin  for  it. 

Mr.  Moody  preaches  only  salvation,  and  the  press  never 
persecutes  Mr.  Moody,  because  he  preaches  salvation  and 
administers  anecdotal  molasses.  (Laughter.) 

But  when  a  man  comes  who  preaches  Repentance,  Faith, 
Obedience,  Divine  Healing  and  Holiness,  with  "great  plain- 
ness of  speech,"  then  they  want  to  kill  him. 

That  kind  of  thing  will  not  do  for  the  Devil.  There  is  too 
much  religion  in  it.  It  is  too  thorough.  It  goes  to  the  root  of 
everything.  That  kind  of  religion,  the  old-time  religion,  is  not 
in  fashion  in  Chicago,  or  anywhere  in  the  world,  today. 

I  do  not  care  whether  it  is  in  fashion  or  not.  I  have  come 
to  preach  the  old  and  Everlasting  Gospel. 

Three  thousand  were  saved  on  that  Day  of  Pentecost.  I 
believe  that  poor  man  was  one  of  the  three  thousand.  I  think 
that  God  filled  his  heart  with  sorrow  because  he  too  had  cried 
against  the  Holy  and  Just,  and  asked  a  murderer  to  be  released. 
He  was  convicted  of  sin  and  converted  by  the  Holy  Spirit. 

Now  he  knew  the  apostles.  They  were  his  friends,  and  as 
they  passed  by  he  would  say  to  them,  "Oh  John!  O  Peter! 
Do  you  think  that  God  has  forgiven  me?"  They  would  say, 
"Yes,  he  has  forgiven  you." 

This  afternoon  as  they  passed  the  Beautiful  Gate,  they  gave 
him  a  nod  and  a  smile,  and  he,  in  order  to  attract  their  atten- 
tion, asked  for  an  alms. 

THE  WEALTH  OF  THE  APOSTOLIC  CHURCH. 

Some  people  think  that  their  answer,  that  they  did  not  have 
anything  in  their  pockets,  was  an  evidence  of  their  poverty. 
But  that  is  an  evidence  of  their  riches,  because  it  is  only  a  rich 
man  who  can  afford  to  go  about  without  money.  A  poor  man 
has  to  carry  his  money  with  him. 

I  heard  the  other  day  of  Baron  Rothschild  in  London  being 
in  an  omnibus.  He  is  a  Jew,  and  when  he  got  to  a  certain 
point  the  conductor  said,  "Give  me  your  fare."  He  went  into 
his  trousers'  pocket  and  into  his  vest  pocket.  There  was  no 
money  in  either.  "  I  haven't  any  money,"  he  said.  "  Get  out, 
you  old  Jew  dog."  He  asked  if  any  one  would  lend  him  three- 
pence. They  asked,  "Who  are  you?"  He  said,  "I  will  have 
to  tell  you:  I  am  Baron  Rothschild,  and  I  haven't  a  thripence." 
One  person  there  said,  "Why,  Baron,  certainly,"  and  handed 
him  his  purse. 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  137 

These  apostles  were  rich.  There  is  a  great  deal  of  mis- 
understanding about  the  apostles  being  poor. 

The  disciples  in  thousands  sold  their  houses  and  lands;  for 
Jesus  said  Jerusalem  was  going  to  be  destroyed,  and  they 
believed  it.  They  sold  their  properties,  and  laid  the  price  at 
the  apostles'  feet. 

Suppose  there  were  ten  thousand  of  them,  and  they  had 
only  a  dollar  each;  that  would  be  ten  thousand  dollars.  If 
they  had  ten  dollars  each,  that  would  be  a  hundred  thousand 
dollars,  and  if  they  had  a  hundred  dollars  each,  that  would  be 
a  million.  If  they  had  a  thousand  dollars  each,  that  would  be 
ten  millions,  and  if  they  had  five  thousand  dollars  each,  on  an 
average,  which  they  doubtless  had,  that  would  be  fifty  millions. 
Anybody  who  knows  anything  about  the  Jews  knows  that  they 
always  amass  property  and  money. 

Suppose  there  were  fifty  thousand  of  them,  and  that  their 
properties  were  worth  an  equivalent  of  five  thousand  dollars 
each  in  modern  money,  then  the  Apostolic  Treasury  would 
contain  the  vast  sum  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  millions  of 
dollars — a  splendid  accumulation  of  "the  sinews  of  war"  for 
the  evangelization  of  the  world. 

Peter  and  John  were  at  the  head  of  a  vast  Church,  and  they 
did  not  carry  money  around  with  them. 

Zion  is  rich,  thank  God,  today.  (Amen.)  I  am  glad  to 
tell  you  that  Zion  City  Bank  and  Zion  Land  and  Investment 
Association  have  increased  more  than  nine  hundred  per  cent 
while  this  persecution  has  been  going  on. 

Not  one  dollar  of  the  money  of  any  one  in  Zion  has  been 
taken  out  of  our  Financial  Institutions. 

But  I  wish  our  Church  were  ten  times  richer  than  it  is.  God 
is  going  to  make  it  rich:  for  Zion  must  go  forth  to  all  the 
world. 

HOW    ZION    FAMILIES    BECOME    RICH. 

Our  men  are  not  stinkpots.  (Laughter  and  applause.)  They 
do  not  spend  one  single  cent  on  tobacco.  You  who  chew  and 
smoke  call  your  bodies  Temples  of  God!  Do  you  think  God 
the  Holy  Ghost  would  dwell  in  a  carcass  like  that,  you  stink- 
pots? 

Zion  men  do  not  spend  money  on  liquor.  • 

They  do  not  go  to  gambling  houses. 

They  do  not  eat  any  pork. 

Ah, you  pig-eaters!  You  call  yourselves  Christians!  What 
does  the  Word  of  God  say? 

Of  their  flesh  ye  shall  not  eat,  and  their  carcasses  ye  shall  not  touch; 
they  are  unclean  unto  you. 

Did  not  Jesus  destroy  two  thousand  pigs  in  one  day? 

Swine's  flesh  is  the  dirtiest  food  you  can  touch.  It  is  full 
of  scrofula  and  full  of  cancer  and  every  abomination. 


138  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

"Oh,"  says  some  one,  "God  made  it,  Doctor."  I  know  He 
did,  and  He  made  a  skunk,  and  a  rattlesnake,  and  lice.  What 
woman  will  cook  such  creatures,  and  such  vermin,  for  her  hus- 
band? (Laughter  and  applause.) 

Furthermore, 

A   ZION    MAN    IS   NOT   A   MEMBER    OF   ANY   SECRET   SOCIETY. 

You  secret  society  members  call  yourselves  husbands. 
Husband  in  the  old  Saxon  means  house-band.  What  kind  of 
a  house-band  are  you? 

When  you  married  that  woman  by  your  side  you  said  to 
her:  "Oh,  Betty,  marry  me  and  your  society  will  be  the  one 
constant  joy  of  my  life." 

You  wretched  liar,  you  belong  to  every  society  in  town 
except  the  Home  Society.  (Applause  and  laughter.) 

When  the  Lodge  is  out,  the  Zion  man  does  not  adjourn  to 
the  saloon,  to  the  house  of  her  whose  house  is  the  gate  of  hell. 
He  does  not  bring  home  dirty,  foul  disease,  and  breed  these 
poor,  wretched,  diseased  children,  and  destroy  the  health  of 
his  wife.  Perhaps  he  used  to  be  that  kind  of  a  dirty  dog,  for 
many  Zion  people  have  been  saved  from  the  depths,  but  he 
has  repented  and  trusted  God  to  forgive  him  and  cleanse  him, 
spirit,  soul  and  body. 

Then  the  Zion  man  has  no  doctor  bills  to  pay;  the  fifty  dol- 
lars a  year  which  formerly  went  to  the  doctors  he  now  saves. 
There  are  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  in  this  country  who, 
through  Zion  teaching,  have  discharged  their  doctors,  hence 
the  doctors  lose  twelve  and  a  half  million  dollars  yearly  on 
account  of  Zion. 

"  Hinc  illce  lacnmce."  Hence  these  tears  ot  idodoform  and 
assafetida  and  other  foul-smelling  griefs  which  the  would-be 
doctors  have  been  weeping  inside  and  outside  of  our  West  Side 
Zion  Tabernacle. 

On  account  of  giving  up  and  being  free  from  all  these 
things,  the  Zion  man  saves  about  four  dollars  out  of  every  ten 
more  than  you  do  who  sin  in  these  matters. 

When  he  has  given  a  tithe  he  has  three  dollars  ahead  still. 

THANK  GOD,  ZION  IS  GETTING  RICH. 

It  is  making  the  home  happy,  and  making  the  body  healthy. 

But  to  return  to  the  man  at  the  Beautiful  Gate. 

Peter  and  poor  John  did  not  like  to  pass  this  man  because 
Jesus  had  said,  "  If  a  man  ask  you  for  anything,  give  it  to  him ; 
give  to  the  poor." 

I  thank  God  for  Zion  in  the  matter  of  her  helping  the  poor. 

We  send  out  a  thousand  Zion's  Seventies  every  week,  and 
they  go  into  the  streets  and  lanes,  and  carry  help  and  good 
words.  We  do  what  we  can  to  win  the  sinful  and  fallen  to  God. 
We  take  the  poor  harlot  and  find  a  home  for  her. 


ZION'S   HOLY    WAR.  139 

I  thank  God  for  all  the  practical  work  of  Zion. 

Peter  and  John  had  no  money  with  them.  All  at  once 
there  came  an  illumination.  Oh,  how  Peter's  face  lit  up,  and 
he  looked  at  John,  and  John  looked  at  Peter. 

All  at  once  there  came  into  their  minds  the  thought  that 
they  had  something  better  than  money. 

THE  APOSTLES  OF  JESUS  HAD  THE  NINE  GIFTS  OF  THE  HOLY  SPIRIT. 

They  were  the  Word  of  Wisdom,  the  Word  of  Knowledge, 
Faith,  Gifts  of  Healings,  Workings  of  Miracles,  Prophecy,  Dis- 
cernings  of  Spirits,  Divers  Kinds  of  Tongues,  and  Interpreta- 
tion of  Tongues.  They  thought,  "Why  should  not  God  heal 
this  man  through  our  agency?"  Did  not  Jesus  say: 

He  that  believeth  on  Me,  the  works  that  I  do  shall  he  do  also? 

Then  they  talked  to  the  man,  and  although  we  have  only 
the  outline  of  the  story,  we  know  that  they  said  to  him,  "If 
you  will  trust  Jesus  with  your  spirit,  soul  and  body,  and  in  the 
Name  of  Jesus  will  do  what  we  tell  you,  you  will  arise  and 
walk." 

The  man  doubtless  said,  "I  will  trust." 

Peter  held  out  his  strong  hand  and  said,  "In  the  Name  of 
Jesus  Christ  of  Nazareth,  arise."  The  man  struggled  to  his 
feet.  These  poor  feet  and  ankles,  that  had  never  borne  his 
weight,  were  strong  now. 

"  Now  walk,"  said  Peter.  He  began  to  walk,  so  slowly. 
"Walk  faster."  He  walked  faster.  All  at  once  he  realized 
that  he  was  healed. 

"Am  I  healed?  Oh,  God,  is  it  only  a  dream?  How  often 
I  have  dreamed  that  I  was  like  other  boys  when  I  was  a  child, 
and  that  I  could  leap,  and  run,  and  scale  the  mountain  height, 
and  run  across  the  plain,  and  leap  over  the  brook;  but  I  never 
could  walk.  Oh  God,  is  it  a  dream,  and  shall  I  wake  and  find 
it  so?  Peter,  John,  is  it  true?"  "Yes,"  they  said,  "you  are 
healed."  "Oh,  am  I  healed  because  I  trusted  Jesus?"  "Yes." 
"  Let  me  test  it." 

He  jumped;  he  leaped;  he  ran;  he  went  into  the  Temple 
shouting,  "Hallelujah!  Praise  Jehovah,  Jesus  is  the  Christ." 

The  priests  said,  "Look  here,  this  is  the  Temple,  and  it  is 
the  Sabbath.  Do  not  make  such  a  noise."  He  replied,  "If 
you  had  been  healed  like  me  you  would  make  a  noise,  too. 
Hallelujah!"  (Laughter  and  applause.) 

Would  you  not  make  a  noise,  too? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — It  is  right  to  make  a  noise  at  the  right  time. 

There  was  nobody  there  who  cared  to  look  at  the  priests 
conducting  the  gorgeous  display  and  the  evening  sacrifice  of 
the  lamb  at  the  Temple  service;  everybody  was  looking  at 
these  men.  That  fact,  of  course,  embittered  the  priests  then, 


140  Z 'ION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

as  the  work  of  Zion  does  the  ministers  of  Chicago,  this  even- 
ing. They  hated,  and  they  hate,  to  see  the  people  flock  in 
thousands  around  those  whom  they  despised.  Like  Nehemiah, 
we  can  say,  "Hear,  oh  our  God;  for  we  are  despised."  But, 
like  him,  we  shall  prevail,  and  we  shall  build  up  Zion,  and  we 
shall  let  all  the  nations  see  the  beautiful  Gate  of  Salvation, 
Healing  and  Holiness  through  faith  in  Jesus. 

THE   PHARISEES  IN  ALL  AGES  ATTEMPT  TO  EXPLAIN    AWAY  DIVINE 

HEALING. 

The  Pharisees  were  asked  what  they  thought  of  it.  "Oh." 
they  said,  "it  is  hypnotism;  it  is  magnetism.  You  will  find  a 
battery  in  their  pockets."  (Laughter.)  Another  said,  "It  is 
the  Devil." 

Does  the  Devil  do  work  like  that? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — If  he  does,  then  the  Devil  is  a  mighty  good 
Devil.  I  would  say,  "  Hallelujah  for  the  Devil!"  But  the 
Devil  does  not  do  that. 

The  doctors  do  not  do  that,  do  they? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — They  say,  "Silver  and  gold  have  I  none,  but 
give  me  your  silver  and  gold,  and  I  will  see  what  I  can  do  for 
you." 

When  you  have  no  more  silver  or  gold,  then  they  say, 
"My  brother,  there  is  nothing  more  can  be  done  for  you." 
They  know  I  am  right.  They  have  "charity  patients,"  it  is 
true;  and  they  need  them  for  medical  experiments,  and  surgi- 
cal chopping-blocks. 

This  man  was  healed,  and  they  began  to  wonder  how  it  was. 
So  Peter  and  John  said,  "Be  still  and  we  will  tell  you."  Then 
they  told  them  that  through  simple  faith  in  Jesus'  Name  that 
man  had  been  made  strong.  That  day,  it  is  said  in  the  Word, 

FIVE  THOUSAND  MEN  BELIEVED  THE  GOSPEL  PREACHED  BY  PETER 

AND   JOHN. 

But  where  did  Peter  and  John  spend  that  night?  They 
slept  in  the  prison.  The  Pharisees  had  them  arrested  for  vio- 
lating the  Medical  Practice  Act.  (Laughter.)  The  Pharisees 
had  them  arrested  for  practicing  medicine  without  a  license. 
(Laughter.) 

The  Board  of  Death  in  Jerusalem  could  stand  Divine  Heal- 
ing no  longer. 

ZION'S     GENERAL     OVERSEER     ALSO     ARRESTED     ON     ACCOUNT     OF 
DIVINE     HEALING. 

Now  we  have  had  that  fight  all  over.  For  one  whole  year 
they  arrested  me  on  an  average  of  twice  a  week.  I  had  lots  of 
fun,  and  lost  a  good  deal  of  money.  It  cost  me  twenty  thou- 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  141 

sand  dollars.  If  the  then  City  Persecutor,  Mr.  Tatge,  is  any- 
where around  here — he  lives  in  this  neighborhood — he  knows 
I  had  lots  of  fun  with  him.  We  had  lots  of  fun  with  that  dirty, 
filthy  administration  of  Mayor  Swift's.  (Laughter  and  ap- 
plause.) That  Pharaoh  and  his  Republican  host  perished  in 
the  Sea,  whilst  attempting  to  pursue  us,  and  no  man  knoweth 
their  political  grave  to  this  day. 

"Oh!  "  that  Mayor  said  to  me,  "you  are  breaking  the  law." 
I  said,  "What  law?"  "The  ordinance  of  the  City  Council." 
I  said,  "Don't  you  know  better,  Mr.  Mayor,  than  to  call  an 
ordinance  a  law?  An  ordinance  is  only  an  act  based  upon  a 
law.  Show  me  the  law  upon  which  you  base  this  ordinance." 

He  could  not  show  it  to  me.  I  said,  "The  common  law  of 
England  is  against  you." 

"Well,"  he  said,  "what  have  we  to  do  with  the  common  law 
of  England?" 

That  little  Mayor  did  not  know  that  the  common  law  of 
England  was  incorporated  by  express  statute  in  the  laws  of 
Illinois.  That  is  all  that  some  of  these  mayors  know.  They 
seem  only  capable  of  fostering  "/nayor's  nests." 

I  fought  all  the  cases  in  the  upper  courts,  and  we  won  them 
all.  We  smashed  up  the  ordinance,  and  no  man  can  ever  revive 
it,  although  many  have  tried. 

They  cannot  fix  up  any  law  or  ordinance  which  will  touch 
me.  "But  we  can  get  rid  of  him,"  they  say.  What  do  they 
mean  by  that?  They  mean,  "We  can  kill  him." 

But  I  believe  that  the  people  will  arise  and  say,  "  No.  He 
is  doing  good.  Do  not  let  him  be  killed."  I  believe  that  God 
will  not  let  me  be  killed  until  my  work  is  done.  If  God  should 
permit  me  to  be  killed,  Divine  Healing  would  not  stop.  It  has 
come  to  the  World  to  stay.  (Applause.)  Zion  goes  forward 
till  Jesus  comes  again. 

I  will  go  back  to  that  man  who  was  healed. 

Five  thousand  were  saved. 

A  minister  said  to  me  one  day,  "If  you  were  to  use  your 
eloquence  in  getting  people  saved  as  you  do  in  getting  them 
healed,  how  many  would  be  saved?"  I  said,  "Look  here,  how 
many  have  been  saved  this  month  in  your  Church?"  "Well," 
he  said,  "I  have  three."  I  said,  "Here  is  God's  work  in  our 
Tabernacle  in  Melbourne  this  month  ";  and  then  I  showed  him 
a  list  of  nearly  two  hundred  converts.  "Why,"  he  said,  "I 
did  not  know  there  were  so  many  people  saved." 

THE  ADDITIONS  TO  ZION  EVERY  MONTH  NOW  ARE  NEARER  FIFTEEN 
HUNDRED  THAN  ONE  THOUSAND. 

Every  month  people  are  getting  saved  in  great  multitudes, 
thank  God,  all  over  the  world,  through  Zion.  The  number  is 
far  greater  than  we  know:  for  Israel  is  not  numbered,  except 
by  God  Himself. 


142  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

Five  thousand  men  were  saved  that  day.  That  man's  heal- 
ing made  the  common  people  to  understand  the  Gospel.  One 
reason  why  people  do  not  care  a  snap  about  your  miserable 
preacher's  preaching  is  because  it  is  all  talk.  There  is  nothing 
to  it.  When  you  pray  nothing  happens,  and  you  do  not  expect 
anything  to  happen.  (Laughter.)  You  would  be  mightily 
surprised  if  anything  did  happen. 

You  say,  "Doctor,  what  happens  with  you?" 

Well,  I  will  tell  you.  Would  you  like  to  hear  one  of  the 
last  stories  of  Divine  Healing?  Let  me  go  back  a  little  and 
tell  you  the  story  as  it  happened. 

Dr.  Dowie  related  here  the  story  of  Mrs.  Ruby's  healing, 
who  was  instantly  raised,  after  lying  helpless  for  thirteen  years, 
and  was  able  to  walk  immediately,  and  continues  getting 
stronger  unto  this  day.  (LEAVES  OF  HEALING,  Volume  V, 
Number  49,  pages  945-948.) 

Every  one  in  this  meeting  who  desires  to  serve  God  and  be 
God's,  stand  to  your  feet  now.  (A  large  portion  of  the  con- 
gregation arose.) 

PRAYER    OF   CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me  Thy 
Holy  Spirit.  Enable  me  to  trust  Thee  and  to  do  right  for  Jesus'  sake. 
Amen.  (All  repeat  the  prayer,  clause  by  clause,  after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

Did  you  mean  it? 

Audience—"  Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Then  serve  God.  Love  Him  all  the  days  of 
your  life. 

After  the  Doxology  had  been  sung,  the  meeting  was  closed 
by  Dr.  Dowie  pronouncing  the 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil.  And  may  the  very'God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 
Grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  Love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you,  bless 
you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


ZION'S    HOLY    WAR. 


PRELUDE  — WELCOME    TO     CENTRAL    ZION     TABERNACLE 

SERMON— CHRIST   CRUCIFIED,   GLORIFIED, 

SANCTIFIED. 


A  FTER  a  month  of  fierce  war  against  the  Hosts  of  Hell  in 
£\  Chicago,  it  was  with  joy  that  Zion's  thousands  in  the 
city,  and  many  members  and  friends  from  this  and  other  lands, 
gathered  once  more  in  Zion  Central  Tabernacle  about  the 
Lord's  Table,  on  Lord's  Day  afternoon,  November  5,  1899. 
With  receptive  hearts,  the  large  audience  of  nearly  three 
thousand  drank  in  the  refreshing  and  inspiring  truths  pro- 
claimed by  the  General  Overseer.  With  enchained  interest 
they  followed  him  as,  step  by  step,  he  led  from  the  unspeak- 
able agony  and  horror  of  the  crucifixion,  through  the  power, 
authority  and  love  of  the  Glorified  Christ  to  the  beautiful 
thought  of  Christ  Satisfied  with  His  people's  love  and  service. 
Then  the  speaker  pictured  the  blessing  and  the  joy  of  the  high 
privilege  of  each  one,  in  whatever  walk  of  life,  giving  to  his 
Master  his  love  and  his  best  possible  service,  thus  giving  Him 
satisfaction. 

The  audience  grasped  the  beauty  of  the  conception,  and 
there  was  the  joy  of  a  holy  purpose  in  their  voices  as  they 
repeated  the  prayer  of  repentance,  confession  and  consecration. 

The  giving  of  the  right  hand  of  fellowship  to  over  eighty 
candidates,  and  the  ordination  of  two  Evangelists  and  three 
Deacons,  were  scenes  the  quiet  power  of  which  will  long  influ- 
ence the  lives  of  those  present. 

Then  followed  the  crowning  hour  of  the  day,  when  a  com- 
pany of  fully  two  thousand  five  hundred  earnest  Christians 
gathered  in  happy  fellowship  about  the  Lord's  Table.  Never 
in  the  history  of  Central  Zion  Tabernacle  had  so  many  par- 
taken of  the  sacred  elements  at  a  regular  monthly  communion. 
In  this  quiet  hour  the  Holy  Spirit's  mighty  presence  was  felt, 

War-i43 


144  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

and  Zion,  filled. with  a  renewed  strength,  girded  herself  for  the 
mightier  conflicts  of  the  month  to  come.  A.  w.  N. 

Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  Lord's  Day  Afternoon,  November  5,  1899. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing  Hymn  No.  348: 

Encamped  along  the  hills  of  light, 

Ye  Christian  soldiers,  rise, 
And  press  the  battle  ere  the  night 

Shall  veil  the  glowing  skies. 
Against  the  foe  in  vales  below, 

Let  all  our  strength  be  hurled: 
Faith  is  the  victory,  we  know, 

That  overcomes  the  world. 
CHORUS— Faith  is  the  victory! 

Oh,  glorious  victory, 

That  overcomes  the  world. 

The  Scripture  lesson  was  read  from  the  fifty-third  chapter 
of  Isaiah.  Prayer  was  offered  by  Dr.  Dowie,  after  which  he  said : 

My  brothers  and  sisters  in  Christ,  who  are  in  fellowship 
with  the  Christian  Catholic  Church  in  Zion,  and  all  friends  of 
this  work  who  are  not,  and  all  enemies — because  I  should  be 
sorry  to  think  that  we  did  not  have  "our  friends  the  enemy" 
here  today. 

ZION   SET   OUT    FOR   A   HOLY   WAR    AND   IS   GLAD  SHE    FOUND   THE 

ENEMY. 

Sometimes  people  have  been  inclined  to  be  so  sorry  that  I 
have  such  severe  conflicts.  I  cannot  say  that  I  am. 

Did  we  not  set  out  for  a  Three  Months'  Holy  War  Against 
the  Hosts  of  Hell  in  Chicago? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — And  have  we  not  found  the  Hosts  of  Hell? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Of  course  we  did.  What  is  the  use  of  com- 
olaining  that  we  found  them? 

The  British  made  a  reconnoissance  in  force  a  little  while 
ago  against  the  Boers,  and  they  found  the  Boers;  or  rather  the 
Boers  found  them,  and  walked  off  with  two  regiments  of  them. 
(Laughter.)  When  you  are  at  war  you  want  to  find  the  enemy. 

There  is  one  thing  about  our  fight  against  the  "boors," 
however,  they  did  not  walk  off  with  us  this  time.  (Laughter.) 

By  the  grace  of  God  we  have  been  able  to  give  a  very  good 
account  of  the  "boors"  in  Chicago,  and  we  are  so  thankful  to 
God  that 

"OUR    FRIENDS,    THE    ENEMY,"   ARE     BEGINNING   TO    UNDERSTAND 
ZION    BETTER   AND    BETTER. 

I  hope  that  they  will  understand  Zion  still  better,  and  that 
the  day  will  very  soon  come  when  these  intelligent  young  men 
will  cease  to  act  in  the  insane  and  foolish  manner  in  which 
they  have  been  acting. 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  145 

I  have  here  some  evidences  that  our  words  are  doing  good. 
Elder  Williams  has  just  been  in  Iowa,  and  sent  these  throphies 
captured  from  the  enemy  from  there  the  other  day.  They 
were  surrendered  by  Mrs.  Dr.  Daly,  of  Sheffield,  Iowa. 

TROPHIES    CARTURED    FROM    THE    ENEMY. 

I  do  not  like  to  talk  about  these  things  (exhibiting  an 
obstetrical  forceps),  but  it  is  just  as  well  now.  This  is  sur- 
rendered by  the  lady  who  has  abandoned  medical  practice,  and 
has  sent  this  thing  to  be  hung  upon  the  walls  of  Zion.  I  must 
tell  you  that  these  are  the  cruel  things  with  which  immense 
numbers  of  murders  are  committed  by  doctors.  This  is  the 
murderous  tool  which  is  often  used  to  crush  the  head  of  a  babe 
unborn  when  the  mother  signifies  to  the  physician  that  she 
does  not  want  the  child. 

These  are  the  forceps,  the  murderous  weapons  which 
nature  has  no  use  for,  and  God  has  no  use  for. 

An  Indian  woman  can  get  down  from  the  saddle,  give  birth 
to  her  child,  and  get  up  on  the  saddle  in  an  hour  or  two,  and 
go  on.  There  is  no  necessity  for  these  things.  But  when  doc- 
tors who  bring  babies  into  the  world  at  so  much  a  head  are  in 
a  great  hurry,  they  use  this  horrible  thing  and  drag  the  child 
from  the  mother,  oftentimes  murdering  the  child  in  the  process. 
A  great  many  murders  are  committed  with  these  accursed  for- 
ceps. I  declare,  as  I  have  it  in  my  hand  now,  that  Pharaoh  was 
no  greater  murderer  of  the  innocents  than  the  doctors  are  with 
these  accursed  instruments,  and  things  like  them. 

May  God  have  mercy  upon  them.     (Amen.) 

Dr.  Daly  has  given  this  up,  and  sent  it  down  to  hang  upon 
the  walls  of  Zion. 

She  is  a  homeopath  and  sends  in  her  two  hundred  and  fifty- 
seven  bottles  of  medicine.  (Dr.  Dowie  exhibits  medicine- 
case.)  There  you  are.  There  is  the  whole  lot.  (Applause.) 

We  will  hang  them  on  Zion's  walls  as  trophies  captured 
from  the  enemy.  (Laughter.)  We  have  captured  the  lady. 
We  have  captured  a  great  many  doctors.  We  will  capture  you 
young  men  some  day.  (Applause.) 

A  THREATENING  LETTER  FROM  A  PROFESSOR  OF  PHARMACY. 

I  have  received  a  letter  from  a  gentleman  who  says  his 
name  is  Schneider,  who  is  a  professor  of  pharmacy  in  the 
Northwestern  University  School  of  Pharmacy.  He  tells  me 
that  he  did  me  the  honor  to  come  and  hear  me  speak  last  Sab- 
bath Day.  He  says  he  was  so  shockingly  disgusted  with  my 
ignorance  and  vulgarity,  and  my  evident  want  of  intellectual 
capacity  to  argue  this  matter,  that  he,  as  a  graduate  of  this 
magnificent  University,  cannot  think  of  arguing  with  me. 
(Laughter  and  applause.) 


146  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

I  was  born  in  Edinburgh,  Scotland.  I  won  the  "Dux" 
medal  of  my  academy  before  I  was  fourteen.  I  went  out  to 
South  Australia,  and  when  I  returned  I  studied  in  my  native 
city  with  some  success  at  various  colleges,  and  also  in  Edin- 
burgh University. 

When  I  returned  to  Australia  they  conferred  upon  me  the 
position  of  pastor  of  the  collegiate  charge  of  the  Congrega- 
tional body.  I  was  once  pressed  to  become  a  member  of  the 
Legislature  and  offered,  in  the  almost  certain  event  of  my 
obtaining  the  seat,  the  portfolio  of  Minister  for  Education  in 
the  great  colony  of  New  South  Wales  by  the  late  Sir  Henry 
Parkes. 

But  of  course  all  that  is  nothing  to  the  learned  Schneider 
who  dabbles  in  "sorcery"  in  a  Chicago  school.  In  the  great 
historic  University  in  which  I  studied,  I  learned  something  of 
logic,  metaphysics,  moral  philosophy,  and  a  few  other  things 
of  which  this  gentleman  seems  to  be  wholly  ignorant.  I  will, 
however,  venture  to  tell  Prof.  Schneider  that  it  is  downright 
impudence  to  compare  the  Northwestern  University,  in  the 
Village  of  Evanston,  with  Edinburgh  University  and  its  glorious 
career  as  a  school  of  learning  for  more  than  three  hundred 
years!  It  is  impudence  to  say  that  no  one  in  the  medical  pro- 
fession would  debate  with  me  because  I  do  not  know  how  to 
debate. 

That  is  too  foolish,  Mr.  Schneider.  (Laughter  and  applause.) 

Mr.  Schneider,  you  end  your  letter  with  a  threat,  saying 
that  if  I  continue  to  talk  upon  this  matter  I  must  be  restrained. 
Mr.  Schneider,  you  will  be  watched  closely,  and  if  a  hair  of  my 
head  is  hurt,  you  may  have  to  account  for  it. 

I    WILL     TAKE    ACTIVE     MEASURES    AGAINST    THOSE    WHO    UNDER- 
TAKE   PHYSICAL    VIOLENCE. 

I  will  stand  with  the  administration  of  this  city  upon  the 
side  of  an  exact  execution  of  the  law  against  rioters.  The  next 
time  I  will  stand  with  Mayor  Harrison  and  Chief  of  Police 
Kipley,  and  all  his  officers,  in  putting  into  prison  Prof. 
Schneider's  elegant  young  men,  who  desire  to  kill  me,  and 
who  rioted  for  hours  at  our  West  Side  Zion  Tabernacle. 
(Applause.) 

I  have  not  hitherto  appeared  against  them.  I  have  not 
complained.  I  have  taken  the  smashing  of  our  windows  on  the 
West  Side,  and  our  people  have  taken  the  cruel  blows  that 
have  nearly  killed  some  of  them,  but  we  will  take  no  more. 
We  shall  appeal  unto  God,  and  we  shall  appeal  unto  the  flag 
under  which  we  stand.  (Applause.) 

Boys  of  the  schools  of  medicine  and  pharmacy,  my  heart 
aches  for  what  is  certainly  impending.  If  you  pursue  this 
riotous  course  any  further,  there  will  be  some  of  you  whose 


ZION'S   HOLY    WAR.  147 

mothers  may  mourn  their  dead.  I  want  no  mother  no  father, 
to  mourn  their  dead.  Let  the  boys  behave. 

I  think  it  is  time  to  restrain  them,  and  restrain  them  very 
sharply  by  law.  Prof.  Schneider,  you  should  have  apologized 
to  me  for  the  conduct  of  your  students,  instead  of  being  impu- 
dent and  threatening  me. 

I  say  to  the  doctors,  that  if  they  go  to  Springfield  this 
next  spring  for  legislation,  I  will  go  to  Springfield  against  it. 
(Applause.) 

I  have  not  taken  any  part  in  politics.  I  stand  out  of  all 
these  things.  I  am  not  a  Democrat,  and  I  am  not  a  Republi- 
can. I  am  as  you  are,  a  Theocrat.  We  believe  in  the  rule  of 
God,  and  in  giving  the  vote  to  the  best  man  who  is  before  the 
people.  Therefore,  whether  it  is  a  Republican  or  a  Democrat, 
it  does  not  matter  to  Zion  a  snap.  The  question  is,  What  is  the 
best  man  and  the  best  policy?  We  do  not  refrain  from  voting, 
because  we  use  our  votes  as  well  as  we  can,  and  there  are  tens 
of  thousands  and  presently  hundreds  of  thousands  of  members 
of  the  Christian  Catholic  Church  in  Zion  to  be  reckoned 
with. 

I  shall  fight  this  thing  right  through.  If  they  appeal  to  the 
Legislature  again,  I  will  go  there  too.  I  shall  ask  the  gentle- 
man composing  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Illinois  to  per- 
mit me  to  speak  before  the  Committee  of  the  Whole  in  the 
Legislative  Assembly  Hall.  I  will  ask  them  to  hear  the  facts 
and  statements  on  the  other  side. 

I  will  not  submit  this  next  time  to  laws  being  passed  with- 
out protest.  I  shall  protest  against  them  with  all  my  might. 
(Applause.) 

I  am  weary  of  the  kind  of  prosecution  which  is  begun  and 
dropped  by  the  State  Board  of  Health. 

Where  are  all  their  prosecutions?  Attorney  Barnes,  where 
are  you,  you  who  "justify  the  wicked  for  a  reward,  and  take 
away  the  righteousness  of  the  righteous  from  him"?  (Laugh- 
ter.) Where  are  you,  with  your  wretched  cases  against  Elder 
Holmes  and  Mrs.  Bratsch?  Where  are  you?  You  told  the 
lower  courts  that  you  had  to  deal  with  them  as  murderers,  and 
you  got  an  unjust  verdict  from  a  prejudiced  and  ignorant  coro- 
ner's jury,  who  were  no  doubt  carefully  selected  for  the  pur- 
pore.  You  flung  them  into  the  jail,  and  put  them  in  cells  in 
"  Murderer's  Row" — good  Christian  people  of  blameless  lives. 
You  brought  the  cases  before  the  Grand  Jury.  Why  don't  you 
tell  what  the  Grand  Jury  did  with  them? 

They  flung  your  false  charges  out  of  the  Grand  Jury 
room.  They  flung  the  Board  of  Death  out  of  the  Grand 
Jury  room. 

I  tell  Mr.  Attorney  Barnes  and  the  Board  of  Death  that 
their  day  has  come.  Their  craft  is  not  only  in  danger  to  be 


148  ZION'S  HOLY    WAR. 

set  at  naught,  but  there  is  no  honest  and  intelligent  person  in 
the  country  who  cares  a  pin  for  it. 

THE     DAY     HAS     COME    WHEN    THERE     IS    NO     REAL    RESPECT    FOR 

DOCTORS. 

They  are  destroying  every  atom  of  respect  for  them  by  the 
way  they  are  behaving. 

If  they  wanted  to  help  me  they  could  not  have  helped  me 
more  effectually  than  they  have  done  the  last  week  or  two. 
They  thought  they  could  hurt  or  kill  me,  but  they  have  been 
mistaken. 

I  heard  the  mutter,  "We'll  get  you  yet."  Very  well,  when- 
ever God  will  permit  me  to  give  my  life  up,  if  it  should  be  so, 
it  would  not  be  the  first  life  that  has  been  surrendered  to  God,  and 
to  a  great  principle.  But  it  is  eternally  true,  that  "the  blood 
of  the  martyrs  is  the  seed  of  the  Church."  If  I  die,  Divine 
Healing  will  not  die;  it  will  go  marching  on.  (Applause.) 

I  tell  these  things  because  the  papers  will  not  print  them. 

When  you  read  the  daily  papers  tomorrow  you  will  read  in 
the  Daily  News:  "  Dowie  went  on  with  one  of  his  awful  tirades, 
during  which  everybody  left  the  house."  (Laughter.)  I  have 
not  seen  anybody  leave  the  house  except  a  mother  with  her 
baby,  and  she  has  been  standing  in  there  trying  to  hear. 

The  Associated  Liars  of  the  press  must  have  been  born 
speaking  lies.  I  do  not  mind  them.  They  can  say  what  they 
like;  they  can  threaten  what  they  like;  they  can  do  what  they 
like.  But  there  are  more  for  us  than  all  that  are  against  us. 

All  the  hosts  of  heaven  are  on  our  side,  and  by  and  by  all 
the  good,  sound  sense  of  the  country  will  be  with  us,  too. 
(Amen.) 

Now,  I  am  feeling  very  happy.  Every  time  I  capture  a 
doctor's  deadly  instruments,  I  am  happy. 

The  tithes  and  offerings  were  then  received. 


CHRIST    CRUCIFIED,  GLORIFIED,  SATISFIED. 


Dr.  Dowie  then  delivered  the  following  address: 

INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight,  and  profitable  unto  this  people,  oh  Lord,  my  Strength 
and  my  Redeemer. 

I  wish  to  say  to  you  a  few  words  from  the  fifty-third  chap- 
ter of  the  Book  of  Isaiah  before  dismissing  this  congregation 
and  going  to  the  Lord's  Table. 

This  fifty-third  chapter  of  Isaiah  is  the  great  Atonement 
Psalm.  In  this  great  atonement  song  you  have  the  presenta- 
tion of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  as  the  Atoning  Sacrifice  for  man ; 


ZION'S   HOLY    WAR.  149 

the  Bearer  not  only  of  the  sins,  but  the  sicknesses  of  humanity; 
the  Deliverer  not  only  of  men  in  spirit,  but  in  soul  and  in  body. 
I  desire  to  speak  to  you  concerning  that  which  this  great 
Psalm  tells  us  of:  Christ  as  Crucified,  Christ  as  Glorified,  and 
Christ  as  Satisfied. 

I    ALMOST   NEVER    DARE    PREACH    ON    THE    CRUCIFIXION. 

There  are  things  I  cannot  talk  about.  I  cry  if  I  begin  to 
talk  about  them.  If  I  were  to  talk  to  you  about  the  death  of 
a  very  dear  son  who  had  been  cruelly  treated,  and  to  give  you 
all  the  details  of  his  horrible  sufferings,  I  would  be  a  man  of 
exceedingly  feeble  sympathies  and  bad  condition  of  heart  if  I 
did  not  feel  it  so  deeply  that  I  could  not  talk  about  it. 

Which  of  you  could  talk  about  your  son  being  dealt  with 
as  Jesus  Christ  was  dealt  with? 

He  was  cursed  by  those  whom  He  came  to  bless,  rejected 
by  God's  professed  people,  because  He  told  them  the  truth. 
He  was  rejected  because  He,  the  Son  of  God,  came  in  deep 
humility,  and  because  He  went  about  doing  good  and  healing 
all  that  were  oppressed  of  the  Devil. 

His  life  was  a  reproach  to  them. 

They  were  seeking  for  as  much  as  they  could  get  from  the 
sheep  by  fleecing  them.  They  loved  the  sheep  at  shearing 
time,  but  when  the  wolf  came  they  ran  away,  and  they  were 
not  willing  to  stand  up  and  defend  the  lives  of  the  sheep 
against  the  fangs  of  the  wolf. 

The  diseased  they  did  not  heal.  Those  who  were  bleeding 
and  dying,  they  passed  by  on  the  other  side  and  went  their  way. 
The  Pharisees  and  Sadducees,  the  Levites  and  priests  of  that 
time,  were  a  set  of  time-serving  politicians  and  abominable 
hypocrites.  Their  private  lives  had  become  a  public  disgrace. 
It  was  known  that  while  they  were  openly  priests,  ministering 
in  God's  Temple  and  preaching  purity,  they  led  lives  full  of 
adultery. 

They  were  so  wicked  that  when  they  brought  a  woman 
taken  in  adultery  to  Christ,  He  said,  "Let  him  that  is  without 
sin  among  you  cast  the  first  stone."  There  was  not  a  single 
priest  who  could  cast  that  stone.  Being  convicted  in  their 
hearts,  they  went  out  one  by  one.  They  feared  Christ  would 
tell  just  what  kind  of  men  they  were,  and  give  public  details  of 
their  secret  vices. 

Yet  these  were  called  the  priests  of  God.  That  was  the 
condition  of  things  at  that  time. 

Because  Christ  loved  the  people,  and  desired  to  save  them 
from  these  rapacious  ministers  who  were  not  shepherds  at  all, 
but  were  the  enemies  of  the  sheep,  He  was  cursed.  The  scribes 
wrote  against  Him;  the  doctors  hated  Him;  the  lawyers  hated 
Him;  they  all  hated  Him.  Why?  Because  He  was  kind  and 


1 50  ZION'S  HOL  Y  WA  R. 

good  and  compassionate  to  the  people.     He  was  preaching  the 
True  and  Eternal  Gospel,  and  they  thirsted  to  destroy  Him. 

THOSE  WHO  LOVE  EVIL  HATE  THOSE  WHO  DO  GOOD  TODAY. 

There  is  no  difference  today.  If  they  could  prove  that  I 
were  a  law-breaker,  do  you  not  think  they  would  have  done  it 
long  ago? 

Voices— "  Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — If  they  can  prove  that  I  am  an  injury  to  this 
people,  why  do  they  not  do  it?  They  have  abundant  oppor- 
tunities. They  have  at  present  the  sympaties  of  a  great  many 
people  whom  they  have  deceived  by  their  lies,  and  who  are 
entirely  ignorant  of  this  work. 

All  their  endeavors  have  failed,  because  they  have  nothing 
back  of  them  except  falsehood;  and  after  all,  when  you  come 
to  the  higher  courts  in  this  country,  falsehood  does  not  always 
go. 

It  was  in  Christ's  day  just  as  it  is  now. 

I  cannot  talk  about  the  Crucifixion.  I  never  think  about  it 
without  agony.  I  never  think  about  it  without  shame.  I  never 
think  about  it  without  being  ashamed  of  humanity.  Oh,  that 
there  could  ever  live  in  this  earth  priests  and  Levites,  scribes 
and  Pharisees,  who  could  desire  to  destroy  the  life  of  One  so 
lovely,  so  beautiful,  so  kind,  so  good,  so  compassionate,  so 
merciful,  so  manifestly  the  Son  of  God  and  the  Messiah  of  the 
world!  I  cannot  talk  about  it. 

To  go  down  into  details  of  that  Crucifixion  seems  to  me  to 
be  horrible.  The  man  who  can  sit  down,  like  that  Centurion, 
and  watch  Him  there  suffering,  agonizing  on  that  cross,  crying 
out  in  His  thirst,  must  have  a  heart  of  stone.  I  cannot  think 
of  His  going  down  into  that  awful  darkness,  out  of  which  He 
cried,  " Eloi,  Eloi,  lama  sabachthani?"  ("My  God,  my  God,  why 
hast  Thou  forsaken  me?"),  in  the  agonies  of  His  humanity. 

The  only  thing  which  I  can  see  in  it  all  that  I  love  to  think 
of  is  the  last  cry,  "Tetelestai/"  ("It  is  finished.")  I  love  to 
know  that 

REDEMPTION   WAS    FINISHED   WHEN    CHRIST   WAS    CRUCIFIED. 

I  thank  God  now  that  I  do  not  have  to  preach  to  you  the 
details  of  His  Crucifixion.  I  preach  a  Christ  Glorified. 

My  friends  of  the  Church  of  Rome  bring  to  you  a  dead 
Christ  upon  a  crucifix,  or  they  bring  to  you  a  babe  in  a  mother's 
arms,  or  they  bring  to  you  a  bit  of  bread,  and  say,  "This  is  the 
Christ." 

The  Christ  is  not  there.  The  Christ  is  not  a  dead  Christ  on 
a  crucifix.  The  Christ  is  not  a  babe  in  His  mother's  arms. 
The  Christ  is  not  in  a  bit  of  bread.  The  Christ  of  God  is  on 
the  Throne  of  Universal  Empire  and,  by  the  Holy  Spirit,  He 
is  enthroned  in  every  true  believer  in  Zion. 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  151 

We  see  Him  who  died  on  this  earth  crowned  with  Glory 
and  Honor.  I  preach  to  you  Christ  Glorified.  I  am  not  the 
follower  of  a  Crucified  Christ;  I  am  a  follower  of  a  Glorified 
Christ. 

He  was  crucified.  He  did  die.  But  He  rose  again.  He 
has  reascended,  and  is  on  the  highest  throne  of  glory,  and  He 
is  here  today.  (Amen.)  For  He  fills  all  things;  His  Spirit  is 
everywhere. 

I  rejoice  to  tell  you  of  Him  who  is  Glorified.  It  is  because 
I  know  He  is  Glorified  that  I  have  such  joy  in  preaching  Him. 
I  cannot  preach  to  you  a  Christ  who  merely  died.  I  preach  to 
you  a  Christ  who  has  arisen  again,  who  lives.  This  Lord's 
Table  means  that. 

With  joy  we  tell  the  scoffing  age, 
He  that  was  dead  has  left  the  tomb; 

He  lives  above  their  utmost  rage; 
And  we  are  waiting  "Till  He  Come." 

We  believe  that  all  authority  in  heaven  and  on  earth  is  His. 
We  believe  that  every  magistrate  and  every  power,  political 
and  otherwise,  in  every  city  and  nation,  must  obey  Christ.  His 
Word  is  the  Supreme  Law. 

It  does  not  matter  what  you  think.  The  question  is,  What 
does  God  think?  That  is  the  only  thing  that  matters  in  this 
Universe. 

We  are  preaching  a  Glorified  Christ,  a  Christ  who  has  all 
power  in  heaven  and  on  earth. 

We  tell  every  man  that  he  must  do  as  God  tells  him.  If  he 
does  not  do  it,  there  is  no  place  for  him  but  hell. 

It  does  not  matter  what  the  people  say,  the  Power  and 
Word  of  God  is  just  the  same  today.  The  Word  of  God  does 
not  change. 

"Oh,  Doctor,  do  you  not  think  that  my  opinion  is  worth 
something?" 

Not  a  snap.     Why  is  your  opinion  worth  anything? 

NEITHER    MY   OPINION    NOR   YOUR    OPINION    IS    WORTH    ANYTHING. 

Why  can  you  not  see  that  plain,  simple  fundamental  prin- 
ciple? What  is  the  opinion  of  any  man  worth  in  connection 
with  law?  If  it  is  a  matter  of  material  law,  for  instance,  a 
matter  of  electricity,  what  does  it  matter  what  your  opinion  is? 
The  laws  which  govern  electricity  are  divinely  made,  and  you 
have  to  obey  them.  If  you  do  not  obey  them,  you  will  be 
electrocuted. 

You  have  to  obey  the  laws  which  govern  motion.  If  you 
run  a  train  upon  a  railway  line,  you  have  to  bear  in  mind  the 
laws  of  centripetal  and  centrifugal  force.  You  have  to  so 
arrange  that  train,  and  so  arrange  that  rail,  that  there  will  be  a 
perfect  equipoise,  or  else  you  will  go  to  smash. 


I $2  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

These  things  are  a  matter  of  delicate  arrangements  of  laws. 
There  is  a  law  in  all  things  that  come  from  God,  and  there  is  a 
law  of  the  spirit  of  life  in  Christ  Jesus,  and  Christ  is  glorified 
by  my  preaching  that  law. 

It  is  an  exact  law.  You  have  to  repent  of  your  violations 
of  law,  you  have  to  believe  in  Christ's  Law  of  Life  and  Love, 
and  you  have  to  obey  God  fully.  That  is  His  Eternal  Law. 

CHRIST   SATISFIED. 

What  a  glorious  thing  it  would  be  if  we  who  are  Christians 
here  today  would  ask  God  to  enable  us  to  so  please  our  Lord 
by  our  daily  walk  and  conversation  that  we  shall  be  able  by  His 
grace  to  satisfy  Him. 

(Dr.  Dowie  is  handed  a  telegram.) 

Let  us  pray  for  this  sick  woman. 

Father  in  Heaven,  bless  this  sick  woman  in  Sault  Ste.  Marie.  Stretch 
forth  Thine  hand  to  heal  all  others  at  this  time  who  are  seeking  prayer,  for 
Jesus'  sake.  Amen. 

THE   CHRISTIAN'S   BLESSED   PRIVILEGE   OF  SATISFYING   CHRIST. 

My  brothers  and  my  sisters  here  today,  I  know  that  if  you 
are  serving  a  good  man  or  a  good  woman,  you  are  always  glad 
to  know  that  you  have  satisfied  your  mistress,  your  master,  01 
your  employer.  Or  if  you  have  been  fulfilling  a  contract,  in 
the  building  of  a  house,  and  at  the  end  of  the  time  the  man  for 
whom  you  built  says,  "You  have  carried  out  this  contract  faith^ 
fully,  it  gives  me  very  much  pleasure  to  pay  you  this  money," 
you  not  only  take  the  money  from  him  and  thank  him,  but  you 
thank  him  for  that  kind  word  which  makes  the  retrospect  of 
your  relations  with  each  other  so  pleasant. 

Whenever  I  can  say  a  kind  word  when  I  am  closing  a  business 
transaction,  or  anything  of  that  kind,  it  gives  me  great  pleasure, 
and  I  see  it  gives  other  people  pleasure.  When  I  say  some- 
times to  an  employee,  "I  am  satisfied  with  you;  you  are  doing 
nicely;  you  are  getting  along  well,"  then  I  see  the  smile  on 
the  face,  and  I  never  forget  how  happy  I  have  made  that  boy 
or  that  girl  or  that  man  or  woman.  It  is  an  intense  delight  for 
me  to  do  so.  And  they  are  glad  that  I  am  satisfied. 

Think  of  Christ  our  King,  our  Best  of  Masters,  being 
satisfied. 

When  will  He  be  satisfied  ? 

I  will  tell  you  when  He  will  be  satisfied. 

CHRIST   WILL    BE   SATISFIED   WITH   YOU   WHEN    YOU   ARE    WHOLLY 
SATISFIED   WITH    HIM. 

Are  you  wholly  satisfied  with  Jesus? 
Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Are  you  determined  to  satisfy  your  Lord  and 
Master  by  your  daily  life  and  conversation  ? 
Voices— "Yes." 


ZION'S   HOLY    WAR.  153 

Dr.  Dowie — And  when  you  are  toiling  in  the  workshop,  or 
wherever  you  are,  will  you  raise  your  heart  to  God  our  Father 
and  tell  Him  that  you  are  satisfied  with  Jesus  ? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — It  is  such  a  beautiful  thought  to  realize  every 
hour  and  every  day  that  His  atoning  sacrifice  has  satisfied  all 
your  necessity.  What  a  joy  to  know  that  He  satisfies  your 
spirit,  and  your  soul,  and  your  body;  that  He  provides  a  per- 
fect redemption.  What  peace  enters  the  heart  when  you  are 
satisfied  with  Him  as  your  Guide,  and  as  your  all.  If  you  lost 
everything  else,  to  have  Him  is  a  satisfaction  that  is  complete 
in  itself. 

I  am  so  glad  that  I  am  satisfied.  I  am  satisfied  to  be  a 
Christian.  I  am  satisfied  to  live,  and  I  am  satisfied  to  die,  if 
need  be,  for  Christ;  because  I  am  determined  that  He  shall  be 
glorified  in  my  mortal  body,  whether  it  be  by  death  or  life;  for 
me  to  live  for  Christ  is  life,  and  to  die  is  gain.  When  a  man 
sees  Christ  and  has  that  thought  in  his  heart,  Christ  is  satisfied 
with  him. 

CHRIST   IS   SATISFIED    WITH    THOSE   WHO    DO   THEIR    BEST. 

Oh,  I  pray  you  let  Him  see  in  your  life  that  you  are  doing 
the  best  you  can.  You  cannot  all  do  what  I  am  doing,  and  I 
cannot  do  what  some  of  you  are  doing,  but  we  can  each  do  our 
part.  When  the  woman  poured  out  three  hundred  denarii 
worth  of  costly  spikenard  upon  her  Lord's  feet,  that  miserable 
Judas,  who  was  a  thief  and  held  the  bag,  said,  "What  a  waste 
this  is;  why  was  the  money  not  given  to  the  poor  ?  " 

Was  it  a  waste  ? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — The  Lord  looked  at  her  who  was  rebuked  by 
that  thief  Judas,  and  He  looked  the  satisfaction  that  there  was 
in  His  Spirit.  Then  He  turned  to  Judas  and  rebuked  him,  and 
said,  "She  hath  done  what  she  could;  and  this  shall  be  told  of 
her  throughout  all  the  generations  to  come." 

The  fragrance  of  that  Ointment  fills  this  place  today. 

Was  not  that  woman  satisfied? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — It  was  all  she  could  do.  She  gave  her  best  to 
Jesus.  There  was,  perhaps,  in  her  heart  the  thought  that  the 
Lord  would  die.  She  heard  Him  say  that  He  was  going  up  to 
Jerusalem  to  die.  Perhaps  some  of  the  apostles  had  told  her 
that  He  should  die  there.  Hence  she  came,  and  before  He 
died  she  poured  out  the  spikenard  upon  the  Living  Christ. 

AN    EXHORTATION    TO    GIVE    LOVE    EXPRESSION. 

There  are  some  of  you  who  say  such  sweet  things  about 
your  friends  when  they  are  dead.  Some  of  you  mourn  over 
the  wife  who,  in  life,  was  looking  for  a  kindly  word,  and  a 


154  ZION'S  HOLY    WAR. 

kindly  smile,  and  a  word  of  satisfaction,  and  you  did  not  give 
it.  When  she  is  dead  you  recount  her  virtues,  and  you  pour 
the  spikenard  of  your  praises  upon  a  corpse. 

Why  not  give  some  of  it  while  they  live?  Why  not  say  a 
kind  word  now?  Do  not  leave  it  until  the  loved  one's  heart  is 
broken  by  your  coldness,  and  you  can  only  caress  the  ice-cold 
body  of  clay. 

And  do  not  confine  your  appreciation  to  mere  words. 

Gifts  are  love  tokens. 

Do  not  wait  to  be  entreated. 

Give  as  God  gives. 

He  provides  for  our  wants  before  we  know  that  the  need 
will  arise,  and  He  showers  us  with  free  gifts  innumerable  and 
beyond  all  price. 

Many  give  only  when  they  must,  and  they  destroy  love  and 
only  give  from  fear  or  shame. 

They  leave  all  to  those  who  have  no  longer  any  opportunity 
or  power  to  enjoy. 

Give  expression  to  your  concealed  love  now. 

Weary,  withering  and  wasted  lives  are  looking  into  your 
eyes  longing  for  your  love. 

Satisfy  the  heart-hunger  of  your  wife,  son,  daughter,  friend, 
fellow-worker  who  have  given,  and  are  giving,  their  lives  for 
you  who  are  so  cold  to  them. 

Above  all,  satisfy  the  longing  of  Jesus  for  your  love  and 
your  consecration.  He  who  was  crucified,  and  glorified,  let 
Him  be  satisfied  in  you. 

WHY  NOT  SERVE  GOD  WITH  THE  FULL  STRENGTH  OF  YOUR  YOUTH 

AND  PRIME? 

If  you  love  the  Lord,  why  not  tell  Him  you  love  Him  now? 
Why  wait  until  by  and  by? 

Why  wait  until  death  is  feeling  for  your  heart-strings? 

Are  you  manly?     Are  you  a  man?     Are  you  a  woman? 

Do  you  love  the  Lord,  and  do  you  thank  Him  for  what  He 
has  done  for  you,  and  will  you  not  confess  Him? 

Oh  shame,  beyond  the  bitterest  thought 

That  evil  spirit  ever  framed, 
That  you  should  know  what  Jesus  wrought, 

Yet  feel  your  haughty  hearts  untamed. 

Why  not  bring  to  Him  that  young  life,  your  manly  life, 
your  womanly  life?  Pour  it  out  at  His  feet,  and  let  the  fra- 
grance of  your  life  and  your  love  and  your  service  fill  all  the 
short  time  of  your  life  on  earth.  He  will  care  more  for  that 
than  He  will  for  your  weeping  at  His  feet  when  you  are  dying. 

Come  to  Him  now,  and  let  Him  be  satisfied. 

My  prayer  to  God  this  last  week  has  been,  "Oh  God,  I 
want  Thee  to  be  satisfied  with  Zion.  I  want  Zion  to  be  satis- 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  I$$ 

fied  with  Thee.  Satisfy  us  early  with  Thy  mercy  that  we  may 
rejoice  and  be  glad  all  the  days  of  our  lives  that  we  may  serve 
Thee.  Satisfy  us  with  Thyself  that  we  may  satisfy  Thee." 

May  God  in  His  infinite  mercy  grant  that  you  and  I  shall 
so  live  that  we  shall  satisfy  God;  that  Christ  shall  see  in  us 
here  and  now  all  the  travail  of  His  soul,  and  shall  be  satisfied. 

I  see  a  day  coming  beyond  the  darkness  and  the  conflict. 
I  see  that  day;  I  hear  its  music  from  afar.  I  hear  the  coming 
of  His  chariot  wheels  down  through  the  skies,  and  the  chariots 
are  beginning  to  swing  very  low.  The  King  is  coming,  and  I 
shall  be  satisfied  when  I  awake  in  His  likeness. 

I  care  not  when,  I  care  not  where,  only  that  I  may  satisfy 
my  Lord  and  live  out  my  life,  and  then  sleep,  and  then  awake 
in  His  likeness.  I  cannot  be  satisfied  until  I  awake  in  His  like- 
ness. May  He  be  satisfied  with  me. 

My  poor  little  best  I  will  do.  I  can  do  so  little,  but,  Oh 
Christ  of  God,  before  I  die  may  I  pour  out  upon  Thy  feet  that 
precious  Ointment  which  may  fill  the  whole  world. 

May  God  help  us.  You  who  desire  to  do  this,  stand  and 
tell  God — all  you  who  want  to  live  for  God.  (Nearly  all 
arose.) 

PRAYER   OF   CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me 
power  to  do  right,  no  matter  what  it  costs.  Help  me  to  trust  Thee,  to  love 
and  to  serve  Thee,  that  Thou  mayest  be  satisfied  with  me.  Oh  make  me 
satisfied  with  Thee.  No  matter  what  happens,  may  I  trust  Thee  and  serve 
Thee  with  every  power,  spirit,  soul,  body,  money,  time,  talents — all  I  have, 
all  I  hope  for,  for  Jesus'  sake.  (All  repeat  the  prayer,  clause  by  clause, 
after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

Did  you  mean  it? 
Audience — "Yes." 

After  the  Doxology  had  been  sung,  the  meeting  was  closed 
by  Dr.  Dowie  pronouncing  the 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil.  And  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  as  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 
grace  of -our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you,  bless 
you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


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ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 


PRELUDE— REMARKS   UPON  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.    SERMON— 
ZION'S  WITNESS  AGAINST  THE   ADULTERERS. 


ZION'S  mighty  witnessing  for  God  against  the  awful  sin  of 
adultery  has  been  continuous  throughout  all  the  years  of 
her  existence.  A  special  witnessing,  however,  was  begun  by 
the  General  Overseer  in  Central  Zion  Tabernacle  on  Lord's 
Day  afternoon,  October  22,  1899.  On  that  occasion  the  man 
of  God  dealt  chiefly  with  the  fundamental  principles  under- 
lying the  whole  question,  and  with  the  terribly  prevalent  sin 
of  unscriptural  divorce. 

This  mighty  witnessing  was  continued  at  the  South  Side 
Zion  Tabernacle  on  Lord's  Day  evening,  November  5,  1899. 
On  this  occasion  the  General  Overseer  dealt  very  plainly  with 
the  intensely  practical  side  of  his  subject.  He  pointed  out 
some  of  the  most  common  of  the  causes  of  adultery  with  a 
startling  clearness,  which  was  a  revelation  to  many  a  selfright- 
eous  critic  of  the  sins  of  others.  Many  self-indulgences 
practiced  by  those  who  held  themselves  to  be  above  reproach 
were  shown'to  be  the  seeds  of  shame.  The  theatre  and  other 
ungodly  amusements,  evil  associates  and  suggestive  literature 
were  especially  denounced. 

He  then  drove  the  lesson  home  with  a  power,  given  him  by 
the  Spirit.  His  appeal  brought  manny  weeping  sinners  to 
their  feet  with  words  of  genuine  repentance  and  confession 
upon  their  lips.  A.  w.  N. 

South  Side  Zion  Tabernacle,  Lord's  Day  Evening,  November  5,  1899. 

The  services  were  opened  by  singing  Hymn  Number  348: 

Encamped  along  the  hills  of  light, 

Ye  Christian  soldiers,  rise, 
And  press  the  battle  ere  the  night 

Shall  veil  the  glowing  skies. 

Against  the  foe  in  vales  below, 

Let  all  our  strength  be  hurled; 
Faith  is  the  victory,  we  know, 

That  overcomes  the  world. 

CHORUS— Faith  is  the  victory! 
Oh,  glorious  victory, 
That  overcomes  the  world. 
War-i57 


158  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

Dr.  Dowie  then  read  from  the  eighth  chapter  of  the  Gospel 
according  to  St.  John. 

Prayer  was  then  offered  by  Dr.  Dowie,  after  which  he  said: 

REMARKS    UPON    ZION's    HOLY    WAR. 

God  has  been  very  good  to  us  this  last  week.  We  are  now 
entering  on  the  sixth  week  of  Zion's  Holy  War.  We  are  hav- 
ing a  good  time  all  around.  We  had  a  splendid  time  at  Oak 
Park,  last  Tuesday  evening. 

I  was  almost  sorry  when  the  police  came  and  said  that  they 
wanted  to  escort  me  home. 

They  call  Oak  Park  "Saints'  Rest."  We  found  it  a  Devil's 
Nest.  (Laughter.) 

We  went  out  to  have  a  Holy  War  Against  the  Hosts  of 
Hell  in  Chicago.  Can  you  blame  the  Devil,  if  he  turned  up  on 
time?  I  do  not  blame  him  at  all. 

The  other  day  the  British  at  Ladysmith  made  a  reconnois- 
sance  in  force  to  find  out  where  the  Boers  were.  They  found 
out,  and  the  Boers  walked  off  with  two  regiments. 

The  boors  in  Chicago  did  not  walk  off  with  us.  But  we 
walked  off  with  a  great  many  Oak  Parkers,  for  today  I  had  the 
joy  of  receiving  quite  a  number  of  new  members  from  Oak 
Park,  and  I  was  told  there  were  about  one  hundred  more  to 
follow. 

Sometimes  it  needs  quite  a  demonstration  by  the  Devil  to 
wake  up  some  people.  God  was  very  good  to  us.  I  must  con- 
fess, however,  that  I  do  not  quite  want  another  night  like  that 
for  some  time.  Still  it  was  all  right.  In  the  course  of  a  fight 
against  evil  there  is  no  use  worrying  if  now  and  then  you  get  a 
knock  or  two.  I  got  some  knocks  at  Hammond.  One  knock 
in  the  middle  of  my  back  stiffened  my  backbone,  another  in 
the  side  of  the  head  increased  my  bump  of  combativeness 
(laughter),  and  another  on  the  top  of  my  head  enlarged  my 
bump  of  benevolence.  (Laughter  and  applause.) 

I    HAVE   BEEN    HAVING   A   GOOD   TIME    FIGHTING   THE    DEVIL. 

There  are  some  folks  who  do  not  understand  what  a  good 
time  is.  (Laughter.)  When  you  are  engaged  in  warfare,  in 
good  temper  and  a  happy  spirit,  and  love  the  people,  you  will 
feel  happy  when  the  Devil  has  been  stirred  up. 

When  I  have  bagged  about  one  hundred  Oak  Parkers,  and 
walked  off  with  a  regiment  of  Hammonders,  I  think  I  have 
had  a  good  time. 

However,  I  think  I  could  do  with  a  quieter  time  now.  It 
seems  to  me  that  there  is  to  be  a  quieter  time.  I  am  sorry  that 
the  police  had  to  knock  good  sense  into  the  boys'  heads  with 
their  batons,  because  I  do  not  like  anybody  being  hurt.  It 
hurt  me  to  think  that  any  of  the  boys  were  injured.  I  do  hope 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  159 

that  the  time  has  come  when  we  are  over  with  these  dem- 
onstrations. 

Do  you  not  think  now  that  they  might  accept  my  challenge, 
and  fight  this  out  with  the  weapons  of  reason  and  logic  and 
fact? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — I  cannot  get  these  fellows  to  accept  my  chal- 
lenge. Some  of  them  have  said,  "We  will  not  accept  the 
challenge  from  you,  because  you  are  such  an  ignorant  man." 

I  was  born  in  Edinburgh,  Scotland.  I  had  the  "Dux" 
medal  of  my  academy  before  I  was  fourteen.  I  was  educated 
at  Edinburgh  University,  and  I  think  it  is  quite  equal  to  any 
Chicago  University. 

I  have  a  perfect  contempt  at  the  present  moment  for  all  the 
Universities  around  about  this  city  which  allow  their  students, 
without  any  objection  whatever  on  the  part  of  the  faculties,  to 
break  the  law  against  disturbing  a  religious  meeting 

The  good  sense  of  the  great  mass  of  the  people,  thank  God, 
is  on  our  side.  (Amen.)  I  am  glad  to  see  that  even  the  gen- 
eration of  vipers  Jn  the  press  have  written  a  little  common 
sense. 

They  are  responsible  for  much  of  the  riot,  however,  and  are 
leaving  the  boys  in  the  lurch  after  inciting  them  to  acts  of  vio- 
lence. That  is  pretty  mean  of  them. 

I  repeat  seriously  the  challenge  that  I  have  given.  Let  the 
doctors  of  this  city  get  their  champion  on  the  field  and  reason 
this  thing  out.  Let  fact  and  reason  prevail. 

LET  THE  DOCTORS  PRODUCE  THEIR  WITNESSES. 

Some  one  said  to  me  the  other  day  that  they  would  have  to 
dig  them  up.  They  declare  that  they  have  some  living.  Let 
them  bring  forth  their  living  witnesses  to  tell  of  the  triumphs 
of  human  healing;  to  tell  of  the  triumphs  of  digitalis  and  nux 
vomica  and  arsenica  and  strichnia,  and  Mother  Siegel's  Sooth- 
ing Syrup,  and  Carter's  Little  Liver  Pills,  and  Pink  Pills  for 
Pale  People,  and  pale  pills  for  pink  people.  (Laughter.) 

Let  them  show  us  what  mighty  things  they  have  wrought 
by  drugs,  and  then  let  me  bring  forth  my  witnesses  and  show 
what  God  has  wrought  by  simple  faith.  Then  let  the  people 
judge. 

They  cannot  get  out  of  it  upon  the  ground  that  I  am  igno- 
rant, because  I  had  a  very  narrow  escape  from  being  a  doctor 
of  medicine. 

When  I  studied  at  Edinburgh  University  I  was  an  honorary 
chaplain  in  the  surgical  and  medical  wards  of  the  great  infir- 
mary attached  to  the  University.  In  that  capacity  I  had  the 
right  to  attend  the  clinics  of  all  the  great  professors  of  my 
time,  such  as  Sir  James  Simpson  ancj  Lister  and  many  others. 


160  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

I  saw  that  there  was  nothing  good  in  either  medicine  or  sur- 
gery; that  both  were  systems  of  speculation  in  human  life. 

Dr.  Dowie  then  gave  a  resume  of  the  paper  of  Dr.  T.  D. 
Crothers,  read  before  the  New  York  State  Medical  Association, 
which  stated  that  twenty-one  per  cent  of  the  medical  men  were 
victims  to  alcohol,  opium  or  morphine  habits.  This  paper 
further  stated,  as  the  result  of  nine  years'  investigation,  that  ten 
per  cent  of  the  three  thousand  two  hundred  and  forty-four 
physicians  examined  were  victims  of  morphine  or  opium. 
These  habits,  Dr.  Crothers  said,  resulted  in  "acute  mania  and 
suicide."  (A  synopsis  of  Dr.  Crothers'  paper,  with  some 
comments  thereon,  appears  in  the  Editorial  Notes  of  LEAVES 
OF  HEALING  for  November  4,  1899,  Volume  VI,  Number  2,  pages 
40  and  41.) 

Dr.  Dowie  continued:  I  ask  you,  is  it  right  and  reasonable 
that  the  people  of  this  country  should,  by  legislation,  be  tied 
hand  and  foot  and  handed  over  to  these  men  from  the  cradle 
to  the  grave? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Zion  will  never  submit  to  it.  Thanks  be  to 
God,  there  are  multitudes  of  people  who  believe  that  they  have 
a  right  to  choose  what  doctor  they  shall  have,  just  as  much  as 
they  shall  have  a  right  to  choose  what  religion  they  shall  have. 

The  State  has  no  right  to  say  to  any  man  what  religion  he 
shall  have. 

If  one  of  you  here  is  a  Roman  Catholic,  I  have  a  right  to 
reason  with  you  and  show  you  why  you  should  not  be;  but  you 
have  a  perfect  right  to  be  a  Roman  Catholic,  if  you  want  to. 
You  have  a  perfect  right  to  your  religious  convictions.  No  one 
has  a  right  to  disturb  you.  You  have  a  right  to  be  a  Unitarian. 
You  have  a  right  to  be  anything  you  please  as  far  as  the  law  is 
concerned. 

You  have  a  right  to  take  whatever  kind  of  doctor  you  wish. 
The  law  has  no  right  to  say  you  shall  take  a  Homeopath,  or  an 
Allopath,  or  a  Psychopath,  or  an  Eclectic. 

YOU    HAVE   A    RIGHT   TO    HAVE    GOD   AS   YOUR    PHYSICIAN. 

If  you  do  not  care  to  take  a  human  doctor,  but  desire  to 
leave  your  spirit  and  your  soul  and  your  body  in  the  hands  of 
the  God  who  made  them,  have  you  not  a  right  to  do  that? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — God  has  promised  to  heal  those  who  trust  and 
obey  Him  fully.  Let  me  see  how  many  of  you  have  been 
healed  through  faith  in  Jesus.  All  stand  who  have  been  so 
healed.  (As  requested,  many  hundreds  of  the  healed  arose.) 

Thank  God  for  that. 

I  am  pleased  with  the  South  Side.  It  has  been  a  good  many 
years  since  I  preached  in  this  neighborhood.  I  would  rather 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  l6l 

have  taken  a  smaller  place  than  this,  if  I  could  have  gotten  it, 
but  it  was  only  this  or  a  very  small  place.  When  I  looked  at 
this  place  I  said,  "Lord,  I  will  take  it  and  You  will  fill  it." 
Last  Sabbath  Day  it  was  rilled  twice  to  overflowing,  and  tonight 
it  is  pretty  nearly  filled. 

I  heartily  welcome  the  thousands  now  present.  There  are 
not  many  empty  chairs. 

ZION    HAS    COME   TO    DO   GOOD. 

I  am  living  for  Christ,  who  loves  me, 

For  those  who  know  me  true, 
For  the  heaven  that  smiles  above  me, 

And  waits  my  coming  too. 

For  the  wrongs  that  need  resistance, 
For  the  cause  that  needs  assistance, 

For  the  future  in  God's  distance, 
For  the  good  that  I  can  do. 

I  desire  to  do  good.  I  shall  ever  do  good,  God  helping  me. 
(Amen.)  I  thank  the  people  very  much  for  receiving  me  so 
kindly  in  all  parts  of  the  city.  These  temporary  little  noises 
in  the  streets  will  pass  away,  and  God  will  help  us  to  do  our 
work,  and  to  do  it  kindly  and  patiently  and  as  well  as  we  can. 

The  tithes  and  offerings  were  then  received. 


ZION'S  WITNESS  AGAINST  THE  ADULTERERS. 


INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight,  and  be  profitable  unto  this  people,  and  unto  all  to  whom 
these  words  shall  come,  in  this  and  every  land,  oh  Lord,  my  Strength  and 
my  Redeemer. 

In  the  third  chapter  of  the  Book  of  the  Prophet  Malachi, 
the  fifth  verse,  you  will  find  my 

TEXT, 

I  will  be  a  Swift  Witness  against  the  Sorcerers,  and  against  the  Adul- 
terers, and  against  False  Swearers ;  and  against  those  that  oppress  the  hire- 
ling in  his  wages,  the  widow,  and  the  fatherless,  and  that  turn  aside  the 
stranger  from  his  right,  and  fear  not  Me,  saith  Jehovah  of  hosts. 

In  this  conflict  with  evil,  Zion  has  gone  forth  to  bear  wit- 
ness for  God  in  accordance  with  His  Word  against  the  evils 
enumerated  in  this  verse. 

The  first  witnessing  is  against  the  sorcerers.  I  have 
explained  on  previous  occasions  when  dealing  with  that  por- 
tion of  the  verse,  the  word  sorcerers  in  Hebrew  is  kashaph  and 
means  makers  and  venders  of  deadly  poisons.  In  Greek  the 
word  is  pharmakoi  (<£a/o/xaKot),  and  means  pharmacists,  or  the 
same  as  the  Hebrew  word. 


162  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

Not  a  single  kindly  word  is  spoken  concerning  doctors  or 
drugs  throughout  the  whole  Bible.  There  is  not  one  word  of 
commendation  for  doctors.  There  is  not  one  word  of  direction 
to  God's  people  to  put  themselves  in  the  hands  of  doctors  or 
to  take  drugs. 

From  Genesis  to  Revelation  the  Bible  declares  that  God  is 
the  Healer  of  His  people.  As  regards  doctors,  it  says: 

Ye  are  all  forgers  of  lies.    Ye  are  physicians  of  no  value. 

In  the  case  of  the  woman  who  touched  the  hem  of  Christ's 
garment,  the  Scripture  says  that  she  had  suffered  many  things 
of  many  physicians,  and  had  spent  oil  she  had  and  was  nothing 
bettered,  but  rather  grew  worse. 

That  is  a  very  common  thing  in  this  time. 

THE    BIBLE    PRESENTS    GOD   AS   THE    HEALER    OF   HIS    PEOPLE. 

By  a  strange  coincidence,  "  Bless  the  Lord,  Oh  my  soul,  and 
forget  not  all  His  benefits;  who  forgiveth  all  thine  iniquities; 
who  healeth  all  thy  diseases,"  are  the  very  middle  verses  of  the 
Bible. 

If  you  were  to  count  the  verses  on  each  side,  you  would  find 
that  these  are  the  two  central  verses  of  the  Bible. 

The  Bible  says  that  God  forgives  sin  and  heals  sickness. 
We  are  here  to  preach  what  God  says  in  His  Word. 

If  anybody  is  of  a  contrary  opinion,  they  have  to  fight  that 
out  with  God  Almighty.  It  is  not  a  question  of  a  fight  with 
Zion.  It  is  a  question  of  a  fight  with  God  Himself. 

I  have  spoken  to  you  about  the  Sorcerers.  That  made  all 
the  riot  by  the  thousands  of  students  and  doctors  on  the  West 
Side. 

The  next  is:  "I  will  be  a  Swift  Witness  against  the  Adul- 
terers." 

One  of  the  most  awful  sins  is  adultery.  It  is  ruining  multi- 
tudes, and  is  causing  great  national  disaster.  I  say  great 
national  disaster,  for 

WHEN   THE    HOME    IS   DESTROYED   THE   NATION   PERISHES. 

A  nation  which  has  no  happy  homes  and  no  virtuous 
mothers  will  soon  perish. 

When  Napoleon  the  First  was  asked  what  France  needed 
most  at  the  time  when  he  was  at  the  height  of  his  power,  he 
said,  "  France  needs  above  all  things  homes  and  mothers." 

France  has  been  destroyed  by  that  lack.  In  fact,  in  France 
there  is  no  word  for  home.  There  is  only  a  word  for  house. 

Thanks  be  to  God,  we  Anglo-Saxons  have  a  word  that 
means  more  than  house — it  means  home. 

How  can  a  place  be  a  home  where  there  is  an  adulterer  or 
an  adulteress  at  the  head  of  it? 

It  is  a  habitation  of  dragons.  It  is  a  place  of  sin,  and  every 
cnild  which  is  born  is  a  child  of  shame;  a  child  which  will  be 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  163 

ashamed  of  its  paternity.  The  curse  of  paternal  vice  is  ever 
resting  upon  it  and  flowing  in  its  blood. 

I  plead  tonight  for  homes  which  are  pure;  for  men  and 
women  who  are  divinely  marned;  for  children  who  are  divinely 
begotten,  whose  blood  is  clean  and  who  are  strong  to  do 
right. 

The  great  thought  in  this  beautiful  Book  is  the  calling  out 
of  the  people  of  God  to  establish  pure  homes,  a  pure  nation 
and  a  spotless  Church. 

THE    HOME   LIFE    OF   JESUS. 

Have  you  ever  thought  of  that  beautiful  home  in  Nazareth 
where  Jesus,  the  oldest  Son  of  Mary,  welcomed  the  little 
children? 

You  have  only  thought  of  Him,  perhaps,  as  a  grown  Man, 
taking  the  little  children  in  His  arms.  You  only  read  of  that 
once,  but  do  you  not  know  why  He  was  so  fond  of  children  ?  He 
had  taken  every  baby  brother  and  sister  as  it  was  born :  James 
and  Joses,  and  Simeon  and  Jude,  and  three  sisters.  Jesus  cared 
for  these  little  babes  as  they  came  into  the  home  at  Nazareth. 

When  Joseph  died,  He  became  the  head  of  the  family.  It 
was  His  lot  to  work  and  toil  for  them  with  hard  toil.  He  had 
to  find  sandals  and  robes  for  little  Jimmy  and  Josy  and  Simeon 
and  Jude  and  their  sisters. 

How  He  loved  them  and  how  He  cared  for  them ;  how  He 
toiled  for  them.  He  was  father  to  that  family.  How  they 
loved  Him. 

At  first  they  did  not  believe  that  He  was  the  Son  of  God. 
It  was  not  until  afterwards  that  they  believed  on  Him.  After 
He  had  passed  into  heaven,  James,  the  brother  of  the  Lord, 
became  an  apostle. 

Jesus  sanctified  home.  He  loved  the  little  children  and 
helped  to  find  them  food.  He  helped  to  care  for  mother  Mary 
and  these  dear  children  and  brought  them  up. 

When  He  was  thirty  years  of  age,  and  they  had  grown  up, 
He  went  out  and  preached  the  Everlasting  Gospel.  He  labored 
and  loved  and  suffered  and  died  for  humanity. 

He  died  a  victim  to  the  ministers,  doctors,  lawyers  and 
politicians  of  His  time,  who  hated  Him  because  He  was  doing 
good  without  money  and  without  price.  They  hated  Him 
without  a  cause. 

I  stand  before  God  tonight  and  say  that  all  who  hate  me  in 
Chicago,  hate  me  without  a  cause,  unless  it  is  because  I  am 
doing  good,  and  smiting  the  wrong.  I  thank  God  I  am  doing 
that,  and  I  intend  to  keep  it  up,  too.  (Amen.) 

While  there  is  breath  in  this  body  I  shall  plead  for  the  poor, 
the  sick,  the  sorrowing,  the  downtrodden;  for  those  who  are 
under  the  power  of  terrible  delusions. 


1 64  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

I  shall  do  my  best  to  help  humanity,  and,  God  helping  me, 
I  am  willing,  if  need  be,  to  die  for  it. 

A  home  with  an  adulterer  or  an  adulteress  at  the  head  of  it 
is  no  home.  It  is  a  house  of  horror  and  shame  and  abomina- 
tion. 

First  of  all,  let  me  point  out  to  you 

WHAT  GOD  REQUIRES"  IN  CHRISTIAN  MARRIAGE. 

God  requires  in  Christian  marriage  the  joining  of  one  man 
to  one  woman  with  an  undying  love  and  devotion  to  each  other 
until  death  parts. 

God  commands  the  tenderest  love  qne  for  the  other. 

The  kindest  and  the  tenderest  pair 
Will  find  some  reason  to  forbear, 
And  something  every  day  they  live 
To  pity,  or  perhaps  forgive. 

There  must  be  kindness  and  consideration. 

When  you  are  marrying  a  man,  you  are  not  marrying  an 
angel. 

When  you  are  marrying  a  woman,  you  are  not  marrying 
an  angel. 

Sometimes  you  will  find  that  she  has  bought  her  complexion 
in  a  paint  shop.  Sometimes  you  will  find  that  her  very  fine 
form  is  all  made  up  of  padding.  (Laughter.) 

Sometimes  you  will  find  that  her  sweet  temper  was  all  put 
on  when  you  came  to  see  her,  and  that  she  was  quite  another 
creature  when  you  were  not  there. 

But  where  you  will  find  one  bad  woman,  you  will  find  ten 
bad  men.  You  are  a  bad  lot,  you  men,  the  great  majority  of 
you. 

You  call  yourselves  husbands. 

Do  you  know  what  husband  means?  Husband  means 
house-band,  an  old  Anglo-Saxon  word. 

A   MEMBER    OF   SECRET   SOCIETIES   IS    NOT   A   TRUE    HUSBAND. 

Now,  what  kind  of  a  house-band  is  he  who  on  Monday 
night  is  an  Elk,  and  on  Tuesday  night  is  a  Buffalo,  and  on 
Wednesday  night  is  a  Red  Man,  and  on  Thursday  night  is  an 
Odd  Fellow,  and  on  Friday  night  is  a  Mah-hah-bone,  and  on 
Saturday  night  goes  down  town  to  see  a  fellow,  and  comes 
home  drunk?  (Laughter.) 

You  infernal  liars  said,  "Oh  Bessie,  if  you  will  only  marry 
me,  your  society  will  be  the  dearest  thing  in  my  life,"  and,  you 
scoundrels,  you  belong  to  every  society  except  Bessie's  society! 
(Laughter.) 

Some  of  you  women  are  not  angels  in  that  respect.  What 
are  you  doing  in  the  Eastern  Star?  What  are  you  doing 
among  the  Maccabees?  Why  do  you  not  attend  to  the  chil- 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  16$ 

dren?  Why  do  you  net  attend  to  the  home?  What  have  you 
got  to  do  with  outside  places  like  these?  You  ought  to  be  at 
home;  and  if  your  husband  neglects  home  and  your  children 
are  neglected  by  you, — oh,  my  God  in  the  heavens,  what  will 
become  of  them? 

Oh,  what  a  terrible  home  it  is  where  the  man  comes  scurry- 
ing in  at  night:  "Hurry  up,  Bessie.  Give  me  my  supper.  I 
am  in  a  hurry.  Give  me  my  Masonic  apron." 

I  am  told  that  Secret  Society  men  are  very  mad  at  me. 
May  they  be  madder.  May  the  good  Lord  make  them  to  see 
what  Jesus  Christ  Himself  said:  "In  secret  have  I  said 
nothing." 

THERE    IS    NO    PLACE    FOR    SECRETISM    IN    CHRISTIANITY. 

Let  us  walk  in  the  light  as  He  is  in  the  light.  Have  no 
fellowship  with  the  unfruitful  works  of  darkness.  What  do  you 
want  with  lodges  all  around  the  town  and  neglecting  your  home 
lodge? 

Oftentimes  adulteries  arise  from  Secretism.  The  poor 
woman  gets  discouraged.  She  feels  that  she  is  neglected.  She 
bears  children.  She  seldom  sees  her  husband,  even  at  the  time 
the  children  are  born.  She  is  in  sorrow  and  in  trouble,  and 
the  first  chance  her  husband  can  get  he  is  away. 

The  other  day  a  man  kicked  up  a  great  fuss  in  this  city  and 
had  one  of  our  Elders  and  a  Zion  nurse  arrested. 

We  had  been  kind  to  that  man  and  his  wife  in  every  way 
possible  at  the  time  of  the  birth  of  their  child. 

Thanks  be  to  God,  that  baby  is  living  still,  and  the  woman 
would  have  been  living,  if  they  had  not  taken  her  to  St.  Luke's 
Hospital  and  filled  her  up  with  septic  poison.  She  died  in  that 
hospital  five  days  after  she  left  Zion's  care. 

When  we  took  care  of  that  poor  woman  who  had  no  other 
friends,  and  took  care  of  her  without  money  and  without  price, 
what  do  you  think  that  miserable  fellow  of  a  husband  did? 

The  moment  the  child  was  born  he  went  out  to  buy  a  keg 
of  beer,  to  baptize  the  child  in  beer. 

He  was  the  interesting  gentleman  who  was  going  to  prose- 
cute Zion,  and  of  whom  the  papers  made  so  much  as  a  tender 
husband.  He  was  no  such  thing.  He  was  not  a  tender  hus- 
band. He  married  that  woman  within  a  few  weeks  after  the 
death  of  his  first  wife.  He  said  he  would  commit  suicide  if 
she  did  not  marry  him. 

That  is  the  kind  of  a  gentleman  he  was.  The  most  import- 
ant thing  in  connection  with  this  matter  is  to  consider 

HOW    MEN    AND    WOMEN    BECOME    BAD. 

As  a  rule,  when  men  and  women  are  first  married  they  love 
each  other.  As  a  rule,  they  have  a  great  regard  for  each  other. 
They  care  more  for  each  other  than  anybody  else  in  the  world. 


1 66  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR 

If  they  would  only  let  neighbors'  talk  alone,  and  let  the 
theatres  alone,  and  let  Secret  Societies  alone,  and  just  begin  to 
keep  a  nice,  happy  home,  they  would  get  on  better  and  better, 
especially  if  they  had  God  in  that  home.  If  you  have  God  in 
the  morning,  God  at  night,  and  God  in  your  heart  all  the  time, 
you  will  be  kind  and  forbearing  to  each  other. 

But  when  a  woman  is  left  alone  there,  and  baby  after  baby 
comes,  and  the  father  scarcely  knows  his  children,  she  becomes 
discouraged.  When  her  husband  is  cross  and  ugly  in  every 
way,  can  you  wonder  that  she  yields  to  the  tempter  who  comes 
along  in  the  shape  of  another  man,  and  says,  "Your  husband 
does  not  care  for  you;  I  do"?  Can  you  wonder,  when  that 
man  tells  her  all  kinds  of  soft  things  and  cares  for  her  and  helps 
her,  that  she  turns  to  him?  Can  you  wonder  if  the  love  which 
her  husband  has  destroyed  by  his  neglect,  if  the  confidence  in 
him  which  has  been  destroyed  by  the  infernal  lies  which  he  has 
told  her  again  and  again,  are  reawakened  by  another?  Can 
you  wonder,  especially  if  she  is  not  a  child  of  God,  that  the 
tempter  should  come  and  steal  her  heart  away  and  make  her 
an  adulteress? 

Can  you  wives  wonder,  if  you  are  not  considerate,  if  you  are 
kind  to  everybody  but  your  husband  and  ugly  to  him  all  the 
time,  that  he  becomes  an  adulterer? 

SOME    COMMON    CAUSES   OF    DOMESTIC   TROUBLE. 

There  is  one  thing  which  makes  a  great  deal  of  trouble. 

I  intend  to  talk  about  simple,  practical  things. 

I  have  gone  into  the  homes  of  working  people  in  my  pas- 
toral visitations.  I  love  the  working  people.  I  have  seen  a 
great  deal  of  them.  When  I  go  into  their  homes  they  want  to 
show  me  honor,  and  they  take  me  to  what  they  call  their  "best 
room." 

Where  can  you  find  a  more  wretched  room,  in  very  many 
cases,  than  the  best  room?  You  go  into  the  best  room  and 
find  all  the  chairs  covered  with  aprons.  You  find  sometimes  a 
cloth  upon  the  top  of  the  carpet.  There  is  an  array  of  cover- 
ings over  all  the  nick-nacks.  The  beautiful  family  Bible  lies 
unused  upon  the  center  table.  It  is  a  chilly,  cold  room.  It 
reminds  one  of  a  sepulcher. 

I  would  rather  be  in  any  room  in  the  house  than  that  room. 
Sometimes  the  husband  who  has  provided  this  room  goes  into 
it.  He  wants  to  take  his  evening  paper,  and  find  a  particularly 
comfortable  chair — he  knows  there  is  a  nice  arm  chair  there; 
but  the  wife  says,  "What  are  you  doing  in  there?  Come  out 
of  there.  I  will  not  have  you  sit  in  those  chairs."  (Laughter.) 

I  would  like  to  know  why  he  should  not  sit  in  those  chairs. 
Did  he  not  pay  for  them?  What  are  you  screaming  at  him  for? 
If  I  or  anybody  else  comes,  you  whisk  off  all  the  aprons.  But 


ZION'S   HOLY    WAR.  167 

when  Jonn  goes  in  there,  you  say,  "Come  out  of  there,  you 
wretch;  I  cleaned  that  today."  (Laughter.) 

Now  can  you  wonder  if  John  goes  out  angry?  He  says, 
"  Bother,  I  cannot  find  an  easy  chair  anywhere  else,  and  you 
have  me  out  of  that  place!  What  did  I  get  the  chairs  for?" 
Then  he  goes  out  and  meets  a  fellow.  He  goes  into  the  saloon, 
and  from  the  saloon  he  goes  to  the  house  of  her  whose  house 
is  the  gate  of  hell.  Who  is  to  blame? 

There  are  some  good  women  who  make  a  god  of  their 
house  and  their  bric-a-brac,  and  they  sometimes  kill  themselves 
over  their  precious  housecleaning.  They  make  it  the  most 
uncomfortable  place  for  a  man  when  the  house  is  so-called 
"nice  and  clean."  It  fairly  smells  of  Sapolio. 

Why  can  you  not  have  it  clean,  and  let  John  dirty  it?  If 
he  will  sit  there,  let  him  sit  there.  Nobody  has  a  better  right 
to  that  chair  than  the  man  who  provided  the  money  to  buy  it. 
Be  kind  to  him  and  let  him  sit  in  the  best  chairs  and  lounge 
on  the  best  sofas.  Let  him  have  the  best  place  in  the  house. 
Let  him  play  the  piano,  if  he  can;  and  if  he  cannot  play  the 
piano,  let  him  play  the  cornet  and  flute  and  get  the  children 
around  and  have  music,  and  have  a  good,  happy  home. 

If  you  make  the  home  happy,  and  let  John  have  the  best  of 
everything,  and  give  him  the  best  of  your  love,  and  do  not 
bother  about  trifles,  you  will  keep  John  at  home.  He  will  not 
care  for  any  saloon. 

I  have  known  hundreds  of  adulterers  who  never  meant  to 
be,  but  they  were  driven  out  of  their  homes  by  the  wretched 
way  in  which  their  homes  were  kept  by  nagging  wives  and 
their  over-uncleanness.  It  was  not  over-cleanness  at  all,  because 
I  have  gone  into  these  places  and  found  them  full  of  dust  and 
moths  eating  the  carpets. 

THE    THEATRE    A    PROLIFIC    CAUSE    OF    ADULTERY. 

You  love  the  theatre,  do  you,  and  you  like  your  husband 
to  take  you  to  the  theatre? 

What  do  you  find  in  a  theatre?  Do  you  not  find  immor- 
ality at  every  step?  Do  you  not  find  the  shameless  woman 
there  flaunting  her  charms?  When  John  goes  out  to  smoke 
between  the  acts,  whom  does  he  meet? 

He  meets  the  harlot.  He  meets  the  seducer.  She  is  there. 
You  are  inside,  and  you  do  not  know. 

Why  do  you  go  to  the  theatre?  It  is  the  gate  of  hell.  On 
one  side  of  it  is  the  saloon,  on  the  other  side  of  it  is  the  gam- 
bling hell,  and  all  around  is  the  woman  whose  house  is  the  gate 
of  hell.  That  is  the  way  to  the  pit  of  doom. 

Many  a  woman  has  lost  her  husband  by  being  a  confirmed 
theatre-goer.  Her  husband  got  bad  thoughts  from  the  theatre 
he  never  had  before. 


168  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

How  dare  a  Christian  go  there?  How  dare  a  Christian  go 
to  these  dirty  operas? 

The  other  day  I  was  asked  if  I  would  agree  to  any  member 
of  the  Church  going  to  an  opera.  I  was  told  of  one  who  had 
a  ticket  for  "  Faust "  presented  to  her  by  her  brother,  who  was 
not  a  member  of  this  Church.  He  said  to  her,  "  Now  do  not 
be  too  particular.  It  is  a  lovely  opera  and  a  great  singer  is 
going  to  sing." 

I  sent  for  the  lady.  I  said,  "Show  me  your  ticket."  She 
showed  it  to  me.  I  said,  "That  is  the  opera  of  '  Faust.'  Let 
me  tell  you  what  this  opera  is.  It  is  a  story  written  by  Goethe. 
The  music  is  written  by  some  other  German,  and  what  does  it 
represent?  It  represents  Mephistopheles,  the  Devil;  Faust, 
the  Doctor,  and  Marguerite,  the  Harlot.  These  are  the  three 
principal  characters. 

"What  good  are  you  going  to  get  in  that  opera?  One  man 
is  going  to  don  the  garb  of  the  Devil  and  the  other  that  of  a 
doctor.  The  Devil  is  going  to  get  the  doctor  to  seduce  the 
girl  and  she  is  to  become  a  harlot.  That  is  what  all  the  singing 
is  to  be  about."  Is  that  a  thing  for  a  pure  man  or  woman  to  hear? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Is  that  the  place  to  take  your  daughter? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Is  that  the  place  to  take  your  husband  or  your 
lover. 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — It  sows  the  seed  of  passion  in  their  hearts. 
The  Devil  sings  his  way  into  the  heart,  and  there  he  plants  the 
seeds  of  lies,  and  adulteries,  and  murders. 

AMUSEMENTS   AMONGST   UNGODLY   ASSOCIATES   A    CAUSE    OF   ADUL- 
TERY. 

Picnics  and  other  places  of  amusement  where  the  godless 
go  are  causes  of  adultery.  Are  there  not  places  where  you  can 
go  with  your  wife  and  family  quietly  and  nicely?  Can  you  not 
have  a  day  with  wife  and  take  care  of  the  children,  and  let  her 
get  into  the  open  air  far  away  from  these  brass  bands  and  beer 
gardens  and  these  bad  associations? 

Many  woman  have  gone  with  their  husbands  to  these  bad 
resorts,  and  what  do  they  find?  They  find  that  their  husbands 
fall  into  a  trap  of  some  designing  woman.  A  little  drink  is  in 
him,  and  before  he  is  through  he  is  making  a  fool  of  himself 
before  all.  Do  you  know  that  is  the  first  step,  oftentimes,  to 
separation  and  quarrels  and  adultery? 

BAD  BOOKS  THE  CAUSE  OF  ADULTERY. 

Whenever  you  have  taken  a  bad  book  into  your  house,  you 
have  taken  the  Devil  there.  The  man  or  the  woman  who  can 
sit  down  and  read  a  bad  novel  has  filth  and  bad  thoughts  in  his 


ZION'S  HOLY    WAR.  169 

or  her  heart.  Bad  thoughts  very  soon  lead  to  bad  actions. 
Why  can  you  not  do  without  these  things?  You  do  not 
need  to  read  bad  books.  There  are  plenty  of  good  books. 
Read  your  Bible.  Do  you  understand  how  beautiful  it  is?  If 
ever  you  did,  you  could  never  desire  to  read  any  other  book, 
except  for  necessary  information. 

I  have  read  vast  numbers  of  books.  I  have  been  a  student, 
a  reader,  a  writer,  a  thinker,  and  a  speaker  all  my  life.  While 
I  love  literature  generally,  I  come  back  to  my  Bible,  morning, 
noon  and  night,  with  a  fresh  joy  and  a  fresh  satisfaction. 
There  is  nothing  I  love  so  much  to  preach  as  this  Everlasting 
Gospel. 

It  is  beautiful  as  the  sun  is  beautiful.  It  is  fresh  every 
morning.  It  is  beautiful  as  the  skies  are  beautiful  with  the 
dawn  of  a  new  day.  It  is  beautiful  as  the  skies  are  beautiful 
with  the  lovely  sunset.  It  is  beautiful  as  nature  is  beautiful. 
It  is  more  beautiful  than  all  nature,  for  it  sets  forth  the  Love 
of  God  continually,  and  I  find  something  new  in  it  all  the  time. 

You  have  missed  the  most  beautiful  Book  in  the  world,  the 
lovliest  stories,  the  sweetest  home  teachings,  everything  that 
is  pure  and  good,  if  you  have  not  read  the  Bible. 

I    FEEL    NO    HARSHNESS    AGAINST    THE    FALLEN    WOMEN. 

My  heart  is  sore  and  sorry  and  sad  with  what  Zion's  Seven- 
ties report  to  me.  There  are  working  in  this  city,  in  connection 
with  this  Church,  nearly  a  thousand  workers,  who  go  out  two 
and  two  into  the  streets  and  lanes  of  this  great  city,  carrying 
with  them  Messages  to  the  homes  of  the  people  every  week. 
I  have  an  intense  joy  in  hearing  what  good  they  do. 

Very  soon  after  we  set  them  to  work  we  found  that  they 
entered  into  the  homes  everywhere  of  the  poor,  fallen  women. 
Some  of  the  best  work  that  Zion  has  done  has  been  in  these 
houses  of  shame. 

We  have  a  Zion  Home  of  Hope  for  Erring  Women,  which 
is  always  filled  with  sixteen  or  seventeen  women.  Sometimes 
five  or  six  of  these  little  babies  that  might  have  been  de- 
stroyed are  cared  for  there.  They  are  beautiful  babies  for  whom 
we  seek  to  find  mothers.  We  seek  to  find  childless  women 
to  take  them  into  their  distant  farm  places  and  give  them  a 
name  and  a  home  and  a  good  inheritance;  not  the  inheritance 
of  shame  which  they  have  in  the  great  cities. 

In  connection  with  this  work,  we  have  found  that  the 
poor,  fallen  women  who  keep  these  bad  houses  are  won- 
derfully amenable  to  the  Gospel  of  God  their  Father,  and 
of  Christ,  His  Son,  the  Friend  of  Sinners  everywhere  and 
always. 

They  are  there  because  of  the  immorality  of  husbands  and 
by  the  shameful  wickedness  of  seducers.  They  have  been 


1 70  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

thrown  upon  the  sea  of  life.     Their  poor  little  babies  have  been 
starving,  and  they  have  become  bad  women. 

THE    POWER    OF    A    SONG    AND    OF    A    "LOVE    STORY." 

A  little  while  ago  two  of  Zion's  Seventies  tried  to  enter  one 
of  these  homes  for  nine  or  ten  consecutive  weeks.  They  were 
met  with  curses. 

At  last  the  woman  who  kept  the  house  said  to  the  two 
brethren,  "Men,  what  do  you  want  in  this  house?"  One  said 
"We  wish  to  talk  to  you."  "Why  do  you  want  to  talk  to  us?" 
she  asked.  Then  the  other  said,  "To  do  you  good."  "What 
would  you  do?" 

One  of  them  said,  "If  you  will  let  me  in,  I  will  sing  you  a 
song."  The  other  said,  "If  you  will  let  me  in,  I  will  tell  you  a 
love  story." 

The  woman  laughed  and  said,  "I  have  been  very  much 
interested,  and  have  begun  to  think  that  you  are  genuine." 
Then  she  said  a  kind  word  about  myself,  and  told  them  to 
come  next  week  and  she  would  let  them  in. 

When  the  next  week  came,  the  poor  girls  of  shame  in  that 
house  were  nicely  prepared,  and  the  Seventies  were  received 
very  respectfully. 

One  brother  said,  "I  promised  to  sing  you  a  song,  the  song 
which  we  sing  so  often: 

"  It  may  not  be  on  the  mountain's  height, 

Or  over  the  stormy  sea ; 
It  may  not  be  at  the  battle's  front 

My  Lord  will  have  need  of  me; 
But  if,  by  a  still,  small  Voice,  He  calls 

To  paths  that  I  do  not  know, 
I'll  answer,  dear  Lord,  with  my  hand  in  Thine, 

I'll  go  where  you  want  me  to  go. 

CHORUS — "  I'll  go  where  you  want  me  to  go,  dear  Lord, 

Over  mounta'in,  or  plain,  or  sea  ; 
I'll  say  what  you  want  me  to  say,  dear  Lord, 
I'll  be  what  you  want  me  to  be. 

"  Perhaps  today  there  are  loving  words 

Which  Jesus  would  have  me  speak; 
There  may  be  now  in  the  paths  of  sin 

Some  wanderer  whom  I  should  seek. 
O  Saviour,  if  Thou  wilt  be  my  guide 

Tho*  dark  and  rugged  the  way, 
My  voice  shall  echo  Thy  Message  sweet, 

I'll  say  what  You  want  me  to  say." 

And  as  they  sang  that  the  girls  burst  out  into  tears. 

Then  the  other  said,  "I  promised  to  tell  you  a  love  story," 
and  he  read: 

"For  God  so  loved  the  world,  that  He  gave  His  only  begotten  Son, 
that  whosoever  believeth  on  Him  should  not  perish,  but  have  eternal  life. 

"  That  is  the  love  story.  It  is  the  story  of  the  Love  of  God." 
He  could  tell  it  nicely.  As  he  told  it  the  memory  of  the 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  i;i 

poor  woman  who  kept  the  house  came  back,  and  she  said,  "I 
once  loved  God.  I  was  once  a  good  Christian.  I  v/as  once  a 
faithful  wife.  Oh  God,  if  Thou  wilt  have  mercy  upon  me,  I 
will  shut  this  house  up." 

That  house  was  shut  up  and  all  the  girls  have  gone;  some 
of  them  into  paths  that  are  good,  and  some  of  them  into  their 
homes.  Many  men  could  not  have  done  it,  but  the  Love  Story 
of  the  Gospel  and  the  Song  of  Divine  Sympathy,  spoken  and 
sung  by  consecrated  men,  did  it. 

THE   WAY    TO    DEAL    WITH   OUR    FALLEN   SISTERS  IS  TO    WIN    THEM 

TO    GOD. 

Our  panacea  for  the  Social  Evil  is  not  policemen's  batons. 
If  you  rout  the  harlots  out  of  one  part  of  the  city,  they  will 
only  locate  in  another.  The  way  to  treat  them  is  to  go  down 
in  the  levee  district  and  work  with  them. 

Bands  of  consecrated  men  and  women,  in  twos,  do  this  every 
Saturday  night,  from  ten  at  night  till  sometimes  two  and  three 
in  the  Sabbath  morning — going  forth  from  Zion  Home  after 
prayer  and  consecration. 

Oh,  what  stories  they  tell! 

They  go  down  into  an  earthly  hell,  and  seek  those  who  have 
"  made  their  bed  "  there,  where  God's  right  hand  stretched  forth 
from  Zion  "finds  them." 

Get  the  fallen  to  Christ.  Policemen's  batons  and  cracks 
over  the  head  will  not  destroy  their  sin. 

It  takes  the  love  which  Jesus  had  for  the  woman,  who  came 
to  Him,  taken  in  the  act  of  adultery.  She  was  full  of  shame, 
that  she  the  shameful  woman  should  stand  in  the  presence  of 
the  glorious  purity  of  the  Son  of  God,  and  she  wept  sore  while 
her  enemies  were  pleading  for  her  death. 

She  wondered  what  the  Master,  the  Son  of  God,  would  say, 

The  men  who  accused  her  and  wanted  her  stoned  to  death 
were  rabbis.  They  had  the  broad  phylacteries  upon  their  brows 
and  upon  their  hands.  They  were  the  priests  of  God.  They 
were  the  lawyers  and  priests  of  the  Temple.  He  looked  at 
them  and  said,  "Yes,  Moses'  law  is  all  right.  Let  the  one  who 
is  without  that  sin  take  the  first  stone  and  throw  at  her."  Why 
did  they  not  do  it? 

Because  as  He  looked  at  them  they  saw  that  He  knew  their 
hearts.  They  saw  that  He  knew  their  lives.  They  did  not 
dare  to  throw  the  stone,  and  went  out  one  by  one. 

Guilty  as  the  woman  was,  they  were  tenfold  more  guilty; 
for  while  they  were  saying,  "Thou  shalt  not  commit  adultery," 
they  were  adulterers  every  one  of  them. 

Jesus  then  looked  at  that  woman  and  said,  "  Where  are  thine 
accusers?"  She  said,  "No  man  accuseth  me,  Lord." 

But  God  and  her  conscience  accused  her. 


172  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

Christ's  purity  condemned  her.  Do  you  need  to  condemn 
a  fallen  woman?  Do  you  think  she  does  not  condemn  herself? 
Do  you  think  that  when  the  effect  of  the  liquor  and  the  mor- 
phine has  passed  away,  when  the  drunk  is  over,  when  the  bad 
company  of  the  horrid  night  is  gone,  that  she  does  not  feel 
the  shame  when  the  sweet  morning  comes? 

Do  you  think  she  does  not  remember  how  once  she  was  a 
pure  and  innocent  girl?  How  the  tears  flow  and  how  she 
weeps!  Can  she  ever  get  back  to  the  purity  of  God?  Do  you 
think  she  does  not  condemn  herself?  Do  you  need  to  con- 
demn her?  She  condemns  herself.  What  she  wants  is  not  a 
condemner,  but  a  helper. 

CAN    YOU    HELP     THE    FALLEN    SISTER? 

Are  you  pure  enough  to  go  to  her  and  look  at  her  with 
eyes  without  adultery?  Can  you  tell  her  that  Zion  has  a 
Home  where  you  can  take  her  and  place  her  with  that 
sweet-faced  deaconess-matron  of  ours  where  she  will  be 
loved? 

That  is  what  we  are  doing;  doing  every  day;  doing  every 
night;  doing  all  the  time.  That  is  why  devils  thirst  to  kill  us, 
because  we  help  to  save  and  heal  the  perishing. 

Where  is  your  pity?  Can  you,  my  brother,  be  the  com- 
panion in  shame  of  such  a  woman?  Have  you  no  sister?  Have 
you  no  mother?  Have  you  no  one  you  love? 

Do  you  not  know  that  the  erring  girl  was  once  an  innocent 
little  babe  whom  a  mother  thought  was  the  dearest  and  sweet- 
est of  babies?  Now  what  is  she?  Shall  you  sink  her 
deeper  and  deeper  into  that  hell  from  which  she  desires  to 
rise? 

No  brute  which  ever  cursed  God's  earth  is  so  vile  as  you 
would  be,  if  you  can  go  forth  and  do  that. 

May  God  help  you. 

May  God  deliver  you. 

Men  and  women,  there  is  only  one  way  to  get  the  sin  out 
of  your  hearts.  Look  into  the  face  of  Christ,  and  He  will  save 
you.  He  will  not  condemn  you,  but  He  will  give  you  the 
power  to  go  and  sin  no  more. 

CALL. 

Every  one  of  us  here  who  desires  to  sin  no  more  and  to  do 
right,  stand  and  tell  God  so. 

PRAYER   OF  CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me 
power  to  do  right,  no  matter  what  it  costs.  Give  me  Thy  Holy  Spirit. 
May  I  right  the  wrongs  I  have  committed  against  any.  May  I  repent. 
May  I  confess.  May  I  restore.  Oh  God,  help  me  to  do  it  for  Jesus'  sake. 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  173 

Amen.     (Thousands  arose  and  repeated  this  prayer,  clause  by  clause,  after 
Dr.  Dowie,  many  of  them  being  deeply  affected,  weeping  bitterly.) 

The  meeting  was  then  closed  by  singing  the  hymn  "Sin  No 
More"  and  the  following 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil.  And  may  the  very  God 
of  Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 
grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you,  bless 
you 'and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


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ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 


ZION'S    HOLY    WAR. 


PRELUDE— THANKSGIVING   FOR   GOD'S   CONTINUED   BLESS- 
INGS.   SERMON— ZION'S  WITNESS  AGAINST  THE 
FALSE  SWEARERS. 


ZION'S  mighty  witnessing  for  God  against  the  latter-day 
evils  enumerated  in  the  fifth  verse  of  the  third  chapter  of 
Malachi  had  begun  to  attract  worldwide  attention.  Those 
against  whom  these  denunciations  had  been  hurled  had  felt 
the  force  of  the  blows. 

The  special  witnessing  against  the  Sorcerers  (the  doctors, 
druggists  and  others  who  mix  and  sell  deadly  poisons)  and  the 
adulterers  had  been  delivered  in  the  various  Zion  Tabernacles 
by  the  General  Overseer. 

The  consciences  of  the  people  had  been  awakened  and  it 
was  a  very  earnest,  receptive  audience  which  gathered  at  the 
West  Side  Zion  Tabernacle,  Thursday  evening,  November  gth. 
The  special  witnessing  against  the  False  Swearers  was  taken 
up.  The  General  Overseer  exposed  and  powerfully  denounced 
False  Swearers  in  the  marriage  relations;  False  Swearers  with 
respect  to  ordination  vows;  False  Swearers  in  the  antichristian 
Secret  Societies,  and  False  Swearers  in  high  and  low  legisla- 
tive, executive  and  judicial  positions. 

The  utter  slavery  of  many  so-called  Christian  Churches  to 
Baal-worshipping  Secretism  was  shown  with  a  vivid  realism, 
which  revealed  to  many  a  deluded  denominationalist  his  true 
position  before  God.  Those  who,  through  their  false  swearing 
in  these  secret  abominations,  had  never  known  God,  were  also 
deeply  convicted. 

There  were  very  few  who  remained  indifferently  seated 
when  the  call  to  Repentance  for  this  and  all  sin  and  Consecra- 
tion to  the  work  of  God  rang  out.  A.  w.  N. 


West  Side  Zion  Tabernacle,  Thursday  Evening,  November  9,  1899, 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing  Hymn  No.  6: 

Behold  a  Fountain  deep  and  wide, 

Behold  its  onward  flow ; 
'Twas  opened  in  the  Saviour's  side, 

And  cleanseth  "  white  as  snow." 
CHORUS — Come  to  this  Fountain, 

'Tis  flowing  today; 
And  all  who  will  may  free/y  come, 

And  wash  their  sins  away. 
War-i75 


176  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

The  Scripture  lesson  was  read  from  the  third  chapter  of 
Malachi.  Prayer  was  offered  by  Evangelist  Loblaw.  Dr. 
Dowie  then  said: 

THANKSGIVING    FOR    GOD'S    CONTINUED    BLESSING. 

I  am  grateful  to  God  for  continuous  blessing  in  His  work 
in  Zion,  and  especially  in  the  West  Side  Zion  Tabernacle.  The 
days  of  the  noise  and  interference  with  it  are  over.  Now  the 
legitimate  and  solid  growth  will  go  on.  God  has  established 
it  thus  far  strongly.  Victories  have  been  won  in  all  directions. 

I  notice  that  the  newspapers  are  now  criticising  each  other 
and  are  busy  having  a  big  fight  between  themselves.  The 
Times-Herald  has  arrested  the  editor  of  the  Inter  Ocean  and 
the  Chronicle,  never  very  active  against  Zion,  is  laughing  this 
morning  at  the  other  more  vindictive  papers  for  having  made 
a  mess  of  their  persecution  of  myself.  I  knew  that  it  would 
not  be  long  before  they  would  quarrel  amongst  themselves. 

The  next  thing  that  you  will  hear  of  is  that  the  Homeo- 
pathic medical  schools  are  quarreling  with  the  Allopathic. 
Although  they  agreed  to  fight  me  for  a  time,  they  differ  so 
much  that  they  will  now  be  busily  employed  in  a  contest 
between  themselves.  They  cannot  find  a  champion  to  debate 
with  me.  God  is  good  to  us.  He  has  given  us  the  victory. 
We  give  Him  the  glory,  for  His  alone  was  the  power. 

The  new  policy  of  the  press  is,  "Let  Dr.  Dowie  alone,  and 
he  will  die  out."  (Laughter.)  They  tried  that  for  a  number 
of  years,  but  it  did  not  work.  I  remember  at  the  time  we  were 
holding  our  meetings  in  the  Chicago  Auditorium,  in  1895  an<^ 
1896,  the  papers  were  announcing  from  day  to  day  that  I  was 
about  to  be  driven  out,  and  a  number  of  times  they  announced 
that  I  was  driven  out. 

There  was  an  article  in  the  Tribune  on  a  certain  Friday 
headed,  "AT  LAST,"  and  underneath  it  were  words  to  this 
effect,  "Dowie  is  driven  out.  Chicago  is  rid  of  Him."  The 
very  next  Sabbath  Day  I  was  speaking  in  the  Auditorium  to 
five  thousand  people,  and  the  Tribune  knew  that  I  was  speak- 
ing there  every  Sunday,  and  that  I  was  going  to  continue  doing 
so  for  months.  It  simply  lied.  We  do  not  trouble  whether  they 
persecute  us  or  whether  they  boycott  us.  They  take  it  turn 
about. 

When  we  are  being  persecuted  we  grow  rapidly,  and  when 
we  are  being  boycotted  we  establish  our  victory,  and  go  on 
growing.  I  will  give  them  plenty  to  attend  to  presently. 

NEXT   MONTH    I    WILL   SHOW   THE   VILLAINY   OF   THE    PRESS. 

I  will  analyze  them  in  public.  I  will  show  that  the  infernal 
newspaper  press  is  subsidized  by  all  the  vilest  people  of  this 
city.  I  will  show  through  their  own  advertising  columns  that 
they  are  getting  thousands  and  tens  of  thousands  of  dollars 


ZSON'S  HOLY  WAR. 

every  month  for  advertising  chattel  morgage  sharks  and  thieves; 
men  who  are  making  fortunes  out  of  the  miseries  of  the  poor 
by  lending  money  at  exorbitant  rates  of  interest.  For  sums  as 
little  as  twenty-five  dollars  poor  men,  and  still  poorer  women, 
in  this  city,  have  been  known  to  pay  principal  and  interest  to 
the  amount  of  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  dollars, 

These  scoundrels  who  ought  to  be  in  prison  are  paying  the 
newspapers  to  advertise  them. 

Abortionists  who  ought  to  be  in  prison ;  women  doctors  who 
do  nothing  but  take  in  women  and  destroy  the  unborn  and  the 
born  babies,  are  feeing  these  papers  to  advertise  them. 

Clairvoyants,  spiritualists  and  fortune-tellers  are  spending 
thousands  of  dollars  per  month  in  these  papers  to  advertise 
themselves.  Abominations  of  every  kind  are  being  paid  for, 
and  the  press  is  subsidized  by  the  Devil  and  his  angels  in  the 
form  of  incarnate  demons,  who  neither  fear  God  nor  regard 
man.  The  Press  is  protecting,  for  money,  every  kind  of 
iniquity  in  this  city. 

You  will  remember  that  when  Joseph  Dunlop,  the  editor  of 
the  Dispatch,  was  arrested  and  tried  for  filthy  and  indecent 
advertisements,  there  were  several  thousand  counts  to  the 
indictment.  He  was  sentenced  to  two  years'  imprisonment, 
and  a  fine  of  at  least  two  thousand  dollars. 

I  have  publicly  stated  that  I  know  I  was  the  first  to  call  the 
Postmaster  General's  attention  to  that  paper 

Mr.  Wilson,  who  was  then  the  Postmaster  General,  said, 
turning  pale  with  indignation  as  he  looked  at  it,  "My  God, 
that  is  surely  not  being  printed  in  Chicago?" 

It  was  simply  a  directory  of  the  vile  houses  of  the  town. 

I  said,  "It  is."  "Then,"  he  said,  "if  I  live,  I  will  put  that 
man  behind  prison  bars."  And  he  did  it. 

General  Black  did  his  work  splendidly  in  that  matter.  I 
tell  you  that  before  I  am  through  with  them  some  of  these 
editors  will  go  to  where  Joseph  Dunlop  recently  came  from, 
the  penitentiary.  (Applause.) 

I    WILL    STIR   UP   THE     PUBLIC    MIND   IN   THIS     CITY   AGAINST   THE 

NEWSPAPERS. 

I  know  that  God  is  infinitely  greater  than  that  generation 
of  vipers.  May  God  give  us  a  clean  newspaper  yet  in  Chicago. 
(Amen.) 

There  will  be  a  lively  time  next  month.  (Laughter.)  It  is 
tolerably  lively  this  month,  but  I  am  giving  the  papers  notice 
I  will  come  down  upon  them,  and  God  will  come  down  upon 
them. 

I  also  intend  to  show  what  the  "religious"  denominational 
newspapers  are  advertising.  I  will  prove  from  their  own 
columns  that  they  are  paid  by  some  of  the  worst  and  vilest 


1 78  ZION'S   HOLY   WAR. 

people  in  this  country,  who  ought  to  be  in  prison  for  their 
crimes. 

I  will  carry  the  war  into  Africa;  yes,  into  "Darkest  Africa," 
where  in  the  jungles  and  forests  of  their  benighted  ignorance 
of  God  and  of  truth,  the  foul  serpents  and  hyneas  of  the  Press 
come  forth  at  night  to  produce  their  shameful  progeny.  One 
of  the  greatest  enemies  of  God  and  man  is  the  Hydra-headed 
Dragon  of  the  Press  controlled  by  Mammon  and  Hypocrisy. 

The  tithes  and  offerings  were  then  received. 


ZION'S  WITNESS  AGAINST  THE  FALSE  SWEARERS. 


INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight,  and  profitable  unto  this  people,  oh  Lord,  my  Strength 
and  my  Redeemer. 

The  passage  which  I  have  been  taking  as  the  text  through- 
out all  these  severe  engagements  in  this  Holy  War,  since  the 
beginning  of  October,  is  found  in  the  third  chapter  of  Malachi 
and  the  fifth  verse: 

And  I  will  come  near  to  you  to  judgment;  and  I  will  be  a  swift  witness 
against  the  sorcerers,  and  against  the  adulterers,  and  against  false  swearers ; 
and  against  those  that  oppress  the  hireling  in  his  wages,  the  widow,  and  the 
fatherless,  and  that  turn  aside  the  stranger  from  his  right,  and  fear  not  Me, 
saith  the  Lord  of  hosts 

In  this  latter  day  witnessing  those  who  represent  God's 
Covenant  must  and  dare  not  do  other  than  speak  with  the 
utmost  plainness.  Yet  they  must  speak  with  the  tenderest  love. 

I  hope  that  before  I  am  through  with  this  series  of  meet- 
ings the  great  mass  of  the  people  of  Chicago  will  get  to  know 
me  as  my  friends  do;  the  friends  who  have  loved  me  so  well; 
the  friends  who  stand  by  me  so  nobly  in  thousands,  and  in 
tens  and  hundreds  of  thousands  throughout  this  world. 

They  will  understand  that  my  words,  though  severe,  are 
words  of  love  and  kindness;  that  I  have  malice  toward  none, 
but  love  for  all. 

My  fight  is  not  against  men,  but  for  them.  While  I  strike 
at  their  sins,  and  strike  at  evil  organizations  and  bad  princi- 
ples,' I  desire  the  welfare  of  every  man,  woman  and  child  in 
this  land.  I  would  not  be  God's  minister  if  I  did  not. 

If  I  were  asked  what  are  the  most  important  oaths  that  men 
may  rightfully  take,  I  would  say  there  are  two  oaths  that  men 
may  rightfully  take. 

THE    MARRIAGE    VOW   A    RIGHTFULLY-TAKEN    OATH. 

The  first  is  the  oath  that  establishes  the  family.  Those  who 
take  that  oath  have  complete  confidence  in  each  other,  and  a 
holy  love  for  each  other.  The  woman  is  willing  to  give  her- 
self to  the  man,  and  the  man  is  willing  to  give  himself  to  the 


ZION'S   HOLY    WAR.  1 79 

woman.  The  vows  which  they  make  are,  on  one  side,  that  he 
will  love  and  cherish  her;  keep  her  in  sickness  and  in  health, 
in  want  or  in  wealth,  and  that  he  will,  forsaking  all  others,  keep 
only  to  her  as  long  as  he  lives. 

The  woman  vows  to  love,  honor  and  obey  him ;  to  comfort, 
cherish  and  keep  him  in  sickness  and  in  health,  and,  forsaking 
all  others,  to  keep  only  unto  him  so  long  as  they  both  shall  live. 

A  young  man  and  woman  took  those  vows  in  Zion  Home 
today,  when  I  married  them.  They  were  both  members  of  this 
Church,  both  loved  God,  and  loved  each  other.  They  have 
gone  away  tonight  very  happy. 

When  I  came  to  my  supper  table  with  my  family  this  even- 
ing, I  found  a  magnificent  bouquet  of  flowers  and  a  little  note 
from  the  bride,  which  said,  "I  am  just  about  to  go  away,  and, 
dear  Dr  Dowie,  I  leave  you  my  bridal  flowers." 

I  think  I  valued  these  flowers  as  much  as  I  ever  valued  any. 

That  simple  vow  makes  the  Family  and  the  Home. 

These  are  the  basis  of  the  Nation,  and  the  strength  of  the 
Church. 

That  vow  when  broken  is  the  most  shameful  false  swearing 
which  man  can  ever  make  before  the  Most  High  God. 

That  vow  when  rightly  kept  is  of  untold  blessing. 

Children  come  into  the  world,  and  are  welcome.  They  are 
children  of  joy,  and  love,  and  light  from  the  beginning.  They 
are  loved  and  cared  for.  They  hear  the  music  of  heaven;  they 
see  the  lovelight  in  the  eye.  There  are  no  drunken  revelries 
there.  There  is  nothing  to  interfere  with  their  development. 
They  grow  in  stature,  in  wisdom,  in  knowledge,  in  purity  of 
spirit,  soul  and  body,  as  only  such  can  grow. 

If,  on  the  other  hand,  that  vow  is  broken  and  shameful  sin 
is  followed  by  divorce  and  repeated  so-called  "marriage"  until 
the  whole  family  life  is  broken  up,  and  drunkenness  and  dis- 
order of  every  kind  established,  what  can  one  expect  except 
the  destruction  of  the  Nation  and  the  pollution  of  the  Church 
of  God. 

The  greatest  oath  amongst  men,  from  a  social  point  of  view, 
is  the  marriage  oath.  A  false  oath  there  is  the  vilest  thing 
that  can  ever  be  spoken. 

OATH    OF    ORDINATION     OF    MINISTER    OF    THE   GOSPEL   THE   MOST 

SOLEMN. 

There  is  a  higher  oath.  It  is  that  taken  when  the  minister 
of  God  solemnly  stands  and,  with  uplifted  hand,  takes  his  vows 
before  the  Ordaining  Officer  in  the  Church  of  God,  and  before 
all  the  people.  He  vows  that  he  will  preach  the  Everlasting 
Gospel  of  Jesus  Christ;  that  he  will  proclaim  the  supremacy  of 
Christ  as  King  of  Kings  and  Lord  of  Lords ;  that  he  will  declare 
everywhere  that  Jesus  Christ  is  the  King  of  this  world,  and 


180  ZION'S  HOJ.Y    WAR. 

that  all  power  is  given  unto  Him  in  heaven  and  on  earth;  that 
he  will  demand  everywhere  the  recognition  of  Jesus;  that  he 
will  boldly  profess  His  Name,  and  declare  that  there  is  none 
other  Name  given  under  heaven  whereby  man  must  be 
saved. 

That  is  the  essence  of  the  minister's  vow,  is  it  not? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — When  a  man  who  has  made  that  vow  enters 
into  a  Secret  Society  where  the  Name  of  Jesus  is  not,  and  dare 
not  be,  mentioned,  has  he  not  broken  that  vow? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — He  has  broken  that  vow,  and  is  a  traitor  to  his 
God.  He  is  a  Betrayer  of  the  Church  of  God. 

The  false  oath  of  a  Freemason,  or  of  a  member  of  any  Secret 
Society,  is  incompatible  and  inconsistent  with  a  man's  being  a 
Christian. 

Zion  witnesses  against  this  false  swearing,  first  in  the  fam- 
ily, and  then  in  the  Church  of  God. 

I    WILL    DEAL    WITH    FALSE    SWEARERS    IN    SECRET   SOCIETIES. 

I  have  already  dealt  with  the  oath  in  the  family  in  dealing 
with  the  adulterers. 

Tonight  I  will  show  you  the  wickedness  and  the  danger, 
not  only  to  yourself,  but  to  the  Nation,  in  Secret  Societies. 

If  any  one  is  of  another  opin-ion,  let  him  hire  a  hall  and  pro- 
claim the  superior  fruits  of  Secretism. 

Let  him  answer  me  by  arguments  and  facts.  Let  him  show 
me  that  Secretism  is  good. 

But  the  weapons  of  Secretism  are  falsehood,  treachery  and 
murder. 

I  shall  fight  Secretism,  for  it  is  the  Devil's  own. 

Jesus  Christ,  our  Lord  and  Saviour,  said,  "In  secret  have  I 
said  nothing."  He  commands  His  disciples  to  walk  in  the 
light,  and  have  no  fellowship  with  the  unfruitful  works  of  dark- 
ness, but  rather  reprove  them. 

He  declared  that  "he  that  doeth  the  truth  cometh  to  the 
light,  that  his  works  may  be  made  manifest,  that  they  have  been 
wrought  in  God."  He  declared  that  "every  one  that  doeth  ill 
hateth  the  light,  and  cometh  not  to  the  light,  lest  his  works 
should  be  reproved." 

I  am  fighting  the  battle  in  the  light.  I  am  using  no  secret 
weapons.  I  am  using  no  secret  methods.  I  am  using  only 
that  which  is  right  and  good,  and  pure  and  true.  I  do  not 
speak  one  Gospel  to  my  people  in  private  and  another  to  them 
in  public. 

I  am  telling  all  the  world  that  Christianity  is  an  open  secret, 
and  God  wants  you  all  to  share  it.  It  is  the  Secret  of  an  Ever- 
lasting Love, 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  l8l 

My  first  shots  in  this  matter  told;  they  hit  five  people,  who 
have  gone  out  severely  wounded.  Before  I  am  through  I  shall 
know  exactly  whom  I  hit.  If  you  move  out,  I  shall  say, 
"There  is  the  Devil  carrying  off  his  wounded  and  dead." 
(Laughter.) 

I  think  I  hear  some  say,  "Dr.  Dowie,  do  you  think  it  is 
right  to  encourage  men  who  have  been  Freemasons  to  break 
the  solemn  oaths  which  they  have  taken,  that  they  will  not 
divulge  the  secrets  of  the  Masonic  Order?" 

My  answer  is  Yes. 

"Then,"  you  say,  "how  can  you  reconcile  that  with  your 
conscience?" 

I  want  to  lay  down  this  principle  which  the  Word  of  God 
lays  down. 

GOD  REQUIRES  A  MAN  TO  BREAK  A  BAD  OATH. 

In  the  fifth  chapter  of  the  Book  of  Leviticus,  at  the  fourth 
verse : 

Or  if  a  soul  swear,  pronouncing  with  his  lips,  to  do  evil,  or  to  do  good, 
whatsoever  it  be  that  a  man  shall  pronounce  with  an  oath,  and  it  be  hid 
from  him — 

That  is,  if  when  he  swears  he  makes  a  blunder,  a  mistake, 
does  not  know  what  he  has  committed  himself  to,  then— 

When  he  knoweth  of  it  then  he  shall  be  guilty  in  one  of  these. 

And  it  shall  be,  when  he  shall  be  guilty  in  one  of  these  things,  that  he 
shall  confess  that  he  hath  sinned  in  that  thing. 

And  he  shall  bring  his  trespass  offering  unto  Jehovah  for  his  sin  which 
he  hath  sinned. 

I  ask  you  to  consider  that  principle. 

A  man  who  keeps  a  bad  oath  when  he  knows  it  is  a  bad 
oath,  is  a  bad  man.  A  woman  who  keeps  a  bad  oath  when  she 
knows  it  is  a  bad  oath,  is  a  bad  woman. 

A  man  who  breaks  a  bad  oath  when  he  knows  it  is  a  bad 
oath,  is  a  good  man,  and  a  woman  who  breaks  a  bad  oath  when 
she  knows  it  is  a  bad  oath,  is  a  good  woman. 

"  Prove  it,"  say  the  defenders  of  Secretism. 

Take  an  illustration.  Every  American  reveres,  and  rightly, 
the  memory  of  George  Washington,  the  Father  of  His  Country; 
"the  first  in  war,  first  in  peace,  and  first  in  the  hearts  of  his 
countrymen." 

His  memory  is  ever  green.  He  was  the  great  general  who 
fought  the  battles  for  Independence.  When  days  were  dark 
and  the  Revolutionary  armies  were  imperiled,  he  upheld  the 
confidence  of  this  country,  and  waited  for  the  brighter  time. 
At  last  he  won  a  perfect  victory  and  established  American 
Independence. 

But  George  Washington  had  been  a  British  army  officer  of 
King  George  III  of  England.  He  drew  his  sword,  when  the 
oath  of  office  was  administered  to  him,  and  lifting  it  high  in 


1 82  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

that  summer  sky,  swore  before  the  Ever-Living  God  that  he 
would  be  true  and  faithful  to  the  last  day  of  his  life,  and  to  the 
last  drop  of  his  blood,  to  his  majesty  George  III,  King  of 
England,  and  King  of  the  American  Colonies.  He  declared 
that  he  would  defend  that  royal  master's  rights  in  America  and 
everywhere  else.  Then  he  sheathed  his  sword  and  went  forth, 
and  fought  the  battles  of  England  in  America. 

But  the  day  came  when  George  Washington  was  sincerely 
convinced  that  the  greatest  enemy  of  his  country  was  George 
III  of  England. 

Therefore,  believing  that  it  was  a  right  thing  to  do  to  break 
his  oath,  he  took  that  sword  and  broke  it  across  his  knee  and 
flung  it  down,  saying  in  effect,  "I  will  draw  another  sword,  and 
will  break  the  vow  I  have  made  to  George  III,  King  of 
England.  I  shall  not  be  a  partaker  in  the  slavery  of  my 
country,  and  of  its  people.  I  draw  this  sword  to  fight  against 
England,  which  desires  to  enslave  my  country  and  my  people." 

GEORGE     WASHINGTON     DID     RIGHT    WHEN    HE     BROKE    HIS    OATH. 

You  all  say  so.  It  was  a  bad  oath  which  he  had  made.  He 
made  it  in  good  faith.  He  did  not  know  it  was  a  bad  oath,  but 
the  moment  that  he  saw  that  it  was  a  bad  oath,  he  broke  it. 

He  proved  his  good  principles  by  breaking  his  bad  oath. 

If  that  was  not  a  good  principle,  then  George  Washington 
was  a  black-hearted  traitor.  George  Washington  ought  to 
have  been  hanged  as  a  traitor  to  his  government,  and  as  a  liar 
and  a  traitor  to  his  God. 

But  George  Washington  took  a  higher  view  of  it. 

COMPARE      WASHINGTON       BREAKING      HIS     OATH      WITH      HEROD 
KEEPING    HIS    OATH. 

Now  look  at  a  man  who  kept  a  bad  oath. 

He  was  a  king,  a  voluptuous  prince.  He  had  married  a 
princess,  who  had  been  already  married  to  his  brother.  He 
stole  her  from  his  brother,  got  a  kind  of  divorce  and  married 
her,  to  the  great  disgrace  of  the  nation,  a  nation  which  loved 
purity  in  the  home.  Herod  made  Herodias,  his  brother  Philip's 
wife,  his  paramour  and  harlot,  and  shocked  the  conscience  of 
the  whole  nation. 

John  the  Baptist  stepped  forward  and  said,  "Thou  art  an 
adulterer.  Thou  shalt  not  have  her." 

MURDEROUS    PASSION    OF    REBUKED   ADULTERERS. 

From  that  moment  that  woman  was  determined  to  have  the 
heart's  blood  of  John  the  Baptist. 

There  are  women  whose  sins  I  have  reproved  in  this  very 
matter,  who  say,  "I  wish  I  could  kill  him." 

A  certain  woman's  supposed  husband's  conscience  was 
awakened  by  my  preaching.  He  went  home  to  her  and  said, 


ZlON'S   HOLY   WAR.  183 

"  Mary,  I  cannot  live  with  you  as  my  wife  another  hour.  I  shall 
go  to  hell  if  I  do.  I  will  provide  for  you,  but  I  am  going  back 
to  the  wife  I  have  wronged,  and  the  family  I  have  forsaken." 

She  said,  "I  will  kill  you  if  you  do." 

But  he  gave  her  money  and  left  her.  He  has  returned  to 
his  true  wife  and  family  in  another  city  in  this  country.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Christian  Catholic  Church,  and  is  living  very 
happily  with  his  family. 

But  the  abandoned  harlot  is  in  this  city,  carrying  a  revolver 
around,  threatening  that  she  will  put  a  bullet  in  my  heart.  She 
has  the  very  same  spirit  as  Herodias,  the  same  spirit  as  Jezebel. 

Herodias  went  about  it  to  compass  John  the  Baptist's  death 
as  only  a  bad  woman  can.  She  had  a  lovely  daughter,  a  young, 
beautiful  virgin.  She  made  that  daughter  dance  with  all  the 
voluptuous  beauty  she  possessed  before  King  Herod.  Herod, 
entranced  by  the  many  charms  of  this  beautiful  daughter,  and 
inflamed  by  wine,  made  an  oath  to  repay  her  for  this  beautiul 
dance,  and  for  disclosing  to  him  all  her  beauty,  anything  she 
might  ask,  even  to  half  of  his  kingdom. 

TERRIBLE  CRIME   OF    HEROD   IN    KEEPING   A   BAD    OATH. 

The  dancer  asked  her  mother  what  she  should  ask  for. 
Her  mother  did  not  tell  her  to  ask  for  jewels  or  gold.  She 
said,  "Ask  him  for  the  head  of  John  the  Baptist  in  a  charger." 

Herod  was  sorry,  but  for  his  oath's  sake  he  did  it. 

He  kept  the  oath.  He  sent  down  to  the  dungeon  of  that 
Castle  of  Machsereus  an  order  that  John  the  Baptist  be 
beheaded. 

Herod  and  all  that  family  perished  miserably.  But  John 
the  Baptist  went  triumphant  to  heaven. 

If  John  the  Baptist  should  ever  come  to  earth  again,  he 
would  say  the  same  thing  again,  and  be  willing,  if  God  should 
so-permit,  to  die  the  same  death.  If  he  should  go  out  of  the 
earth  in  the  same  way,  it  would  be  a  glorious  ending. 

I  am  attacking  the  Christian  ministers  who  take  oaths  in 
Secret  Societies.  There  are  thousands  of  them,  notably  in  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  or,  as  I  call  it,  the  Masonic 
Episcopal  Church.  Four-fifths  of  the  ministers  in  that  Church 
are  Mah-hah-bones. 

Perhaps  you  do  not  know  what  Mah-hah-bone  means.  That 
is  the  omnific  name  of  their  god,  and  is  whispered  in  their  ears. 

Let  me  show  you. 

THE    SHAMLESS    TREACHERY    OF    THE    CHRISTIAN    WHO    BECOMES 

A   MASON. 

What  will  apply  to  a  minister  will  apply  to  any  member  of 
the  Church. 

"Enter  the  Lodge-room,  Rev.  John  Smith!  You  are  seek- 
ing for  Masonic  regeneration." 


184  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

In  the  Manual  of  the  Lodge  by  Mackay,  accepted  and  used 
by  Freemasons,  these  words  are  used  at  page  20,  concerning 
the  candidate  at  the  threshhold  of  the  Lodge-room,  waiting 
for  initiation: 

"  There  he  stands  without  our  portals  on  the  threshold  of  his  new  Masonic 
life,  in  darkness,  helplessness  and  ignorance.  Having  been  wandering  amid 
the  errors  and  covered  over  with  the  pollutions  of  the  outward  and  profane 
world,  he  comes  inquiringly  to  our  doors  seeking  the  new  birth,  and  asking 
a  withdrawal  of  the  vail  which  conceals  Divine  Truth  from  his  uninitiated 
sight." 

And  is  this  man  a  Christian  minister,  Methodist,  Baptist  or 
Presbyterian,  claiming  to  have  been  already  "born  of  God"? 

What  does  Masonry  say  of  him?  It  says  he  is  yet  a  "wan- 
derer," who  comeb  "to  our  doors  seeking  new  birth." 

How  does  he  enter  ? 

He  has  been  compelled  to  strip  naked.  It  is  not  pleasant 
to  tell,  but  it  is  the  time  for  the  truth  to  be  told. 

Then  he  is  dressed  in  a  dirty  undervest  and  pair  of  drawers, 
with  naked  breast,  one  sleeve  rolled  up  and  one  drawers  leg 
rolled  up,  and  an  old  shoe  or  slipper  on  one  foot. 

There  he  stands,  the  Rev.  John  Smith!  (Laughter.)  The 
minister  of  God!  He  declares  in  his  pulpit,  "Come  to  Jesus, 
the  Name  high  over  all.  Never  go  anywhere  without  naming 
the  Name  of  Jesus." 

He  holds  revival  services  on  the  South  Side  tonight,  that 
very  same  John  Smith.  Perhaps  his  name  is  Mclntyre. 
(Laughter.) 

It  may  be  Fowler,  Bristol,  Ballington  Booth  or  Sam  Jones. 

It  is  this  John  Smith,  who  comes  in  naked  as  he  was  born, 
except  for  this  dirty  undervest  and  drawers. 

Whew!  he  would  kick  up  a  dust  if  his  wife  gave  them  to 
him  to  put  on.  Yet  he  puts  them  on.  He  does  not  know  who 
has  worn  them  before  him  ;  some  dirty,  diseased  fellow,  perhaps. 

I  am  talking  what  I  know  from  the  most  reliable  authority 
and  testimony,  namely,  that  of  those  who  wore  them. 

Now  he  comes  in.    "  John  Smith,  we  are  going  to  initiate  you." 

THE    RIDICULOUS    AND   UNCHRISTIAN    INITIATION    CEREMONY   IN   A 

MASONIC   LODGE. 

"John  Smith,  we  will  tie  something  over  your  eyes." 

"Oh,  can't  I  see?" 

"No;  you  cannot  see  the  mysteries.  You  have  to  do  what 
you  are  told  now." 

So  his  eyes  are  bandaged.     Eyes  has  he,  but  he  sees  not. 

"Now,  John  Smith,  we  are  going  to  put  a  rope  around  your 
neck." 

"What!  are  you  going  to  hang  me?" 

"No;  we  are  going  to  tow  you  along." 

The  rope  is  tied  around  his  neck. 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  185 

"Now,  John  Smith,  we  have  an  animal  for  you  to  ride — the 
1  Day  Ma/e  of  the  Desert.'  " 

"Come  along,  John  Smith;  we  are  going  to  make  a  Mason 
of  you.  Enter  this  high,  holy,  great  and  majestic  Order  of 
Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons."  (Laughter.) 

"Oh  Doctor,"  says  some  one,  "they  don't  do  that  in  these 
lodges." 

THE  DAY  MARE  OF  THE  DESERT. 

My  dear  friends,  I  took  great  pains  to  purchase  one  of  these 
"Day  Mares  of  the  Desert."  I  had  to  hunt  all  around  this 
country  and  be  very  quiet  about  it,  too;  but  I  captured  that 
"Day  Mare"  down  in  Ohio.  I  have  it  in  Central  Zion  Taber- 
nacle in  the  stable.  (Laughter.)  I  paid  thirty-five  dollars  for 
the  animal.  (Laughter.)  Many  of  you  have  seen  it,  have  you 
not? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — We  have  used  it,  too.  This  Tabernacle  is  too 
small  for  the  initiation  ceremony.  But  I  had  such  a  ceremony 
performed  in  Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  as  you  can  see  from  my 
pamphlet  on  "Secret  Societies  Exposed  and  Condemned," 
pages  39  and  40,  where  a  picture  of  the  Day  Mare  of  the  Desert 
appears.  I  had  a  man  to  represent  John  Smith  on  it. 

"Now,  then,  John  Smith,  get  on  this  thing." 

He  gets  on  to  ride  to  the  Temple  at  Jerusalem. 

Here  is  a  minister  of  the  Gospel.  How  would  he  like  his 
congregation  to  see  him  now?  Oh,  what  an  elegant  sight  he 
is  as  he  holds  on  to  the  "Day  Mare  of  the  Desert,"  with  a  fool's- 
cap  on  his  head,  with  a  tow-rope  around  his  neck,  blindfolded, 
and  being  battered  sometimes  with  sticks  a  little,  and  often- 
times with  bladders  full  of  peas,  indicative  of  the  windbag  that 
he  is. 

Is  that  the  place  for  a  minister  of  the  Gospel? 

Audience—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Would  he  like  his  wife  and  daughters  to  see 
him? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Shame!  Shame!  John  Smith,  that  you  should 
strip  yourself  naked,  a  spectacle  to  devils! 

He  goes  to  the  East,  and  bows  down.  There  the  Worship- 
ful Master  administers  an  oath.  He  does  not  know  what  the 
oath  is.  He  has  to  swear  that  he  will  keep  the  secrets  on 
penalty  of  having  his  throat  cut,  his  body  cut  in  twain,  his 
heart  plucked  out,  and  many  other  horrible  things. 

I  will  give  you  the  exact  words  of  that  horrible  oath: 

u  I,  John  Smith,  of  my  own  free  will  and  accord,  in  the  presence  of 
Almighty  God,  and  this  worshipful  Lodge,  erected  to  the  holy  Saints  John, 
do  hereby  and  hereon  most  solemnly  and  sincerely  promise  and  swear,  that 
I  will  always  hail,  ever  conceal  and  never  reveal  any  of  the  secret  arts,  parts 


1 86  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

or  points  of  the  hidden  mysteries  of  ancient  Freemasonry,  which  have  been 
heretofore,  may  at  this  time,  or  shall  at  any  future  period,  be  communicated 
to  me  as  such,  to  any  person  or  persons  whomsoever,  except  it  be  a  true 
and  lawful  brother  Mason,  or  within  a  regularly  constituted  Lodge  of 
Masons,  and  neither  unto  him  nor  them,  until  by  strict  trial,  due  examina- 
tion, or  legal  information,  I  shall  have  found  him  or  them  as  lawfully  entitled 
to  the  same  as  I  am  myself. 

"  I  furthermore  solemnly  promise  and  swear  that  I  will  not  write,  print, 
paint,  stamp,  stain,  cut,  carve,  mark  or  engrave  them,  or  cause  the  same  to 
be  done,  upon  anything  movable  or  immovable,  capable  of  receiving  the 
least  impression  of  a  word,  syllable,  letter  or  character,  whereby  the  same 
may  become  legible  or  intelligible  to  myself  or  to  any  person  under  the 
whole  canopy  of  heaven,  and  the  secrets  of  Freemasonry  be  thereby  unlaw- 
fully obtained  through  my  unworthiness,  binding  myself  under  no  less  a 
penalty  than  that  of  having  my  throat  cut  across,  my  tongue  torn  out  by  its 
roots,  and  buried  in  the  rough  sands  of  the  sea  at  low  water  mark,  where 
the  tide  ebbs  and  flows  twice  in  every  twenty-four  hours,  should  I  ever 
knowingly  or  willingly  violate  this  my  solemn  oath,  or  obligation,  as  an 
Entered  Apprentice  Mason.  So  help  me  God,  and  keep  me  steadfast  in 
the  due  performance  of  the  same. 

Is  it  right  for  any  man  to  take  such  an  oath  as  that? 

Voices— "No."   ' 

Dr.  Dowie — It  is  "an  Agreement  with  Death  and  a  Covenant 
with  Hell."  Then  they  read  to  him  out  of  the  Bible.  Think  of 
it!  After  all  this  folly  they  read  to  him  out  of  the  Bible. 

THE   NAME    OF  JESUS    CUT   OUT    FROM    SCRIPTURE    TEXTS    QUOTED 
IN   MASONIC   LODGE. 

I  make  the  assertion  that  in  every  passage  which  is  read 
out  of  the  Bible,  wherever  the  Name  of  Jesus  Christ  should 
occur,  it  is  cut  out.  It  is  never  mentioned  in  the  Masonic 
Lodge. 

There  is  not  a  single  Mason  here  who  will  dare  deny  that. 
It  cannot  be  denied. 

He  takes  degree  after  degree,  which  takes  hours  and  days 
of  time.  It  takes  him  away  from  his  house,  his  home,  his 
family,  his  wife,  his  Church,  his  work,  to  go  through  this  fooling. 

I  am  told  by  thirty-third  degree  Masons  that  from  the  first 
degree  to  the  thirty-third  degree  in  Masonry  they  never  hear 
the  Name  of  Jesus  Christ  mentioned.  It  is  tabooed  in  the 
Lodge  in  straight  or  Scottish  Rite  Masonry,  possibly  the  old- 
est form  of  the  Order. 

Is  that  the  place  for  the  minister  of  Jesus  Christ  to  be? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Is  he  true  to  his  oath,  to  his  God,  to  his 
people,  to  the  Church? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — He  is  a  traitor!  He  is  a  liar!  He  is  a  false 
swearer!  He  is  a  thief!  He  is  eating  the  bread  of  a  Church 
whose  doctrines  he  is  betraying. 

He  csn  say  what  he  likes  about  that,  but  I  hold  to  my 
denunciation  of  him. 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  187 

He  has  been  sacrificing  Christ,  the  Lamb  of  God,  on  the 
altar  of  Baal. 

MASONRY   IS   THE   WORSHIP   OF   BAAL,   THE    SUN-GOD. 

The  sun  is  everywhere.  It  is  the  Baal  of  the  ancient 
Israelite. 

Oh,  my  God,  help  me  to  stand,  if  I  stand  alone,  to  fight 
these  prophets  of  Baal!  (Amen.) 

If  Jehovah  be  God,  follow  Him.  If  Baal,  then  follow  him! 
Stand  out  boldly  and  say  to  whom  you  belong! 

I  honor  the  priests  of  Baal  whom  Elijah  confronted  on 
Carmel's  side  more  than  I  do  the  Methodists  and  other 
denominational  ministers  of  this  city,  who  pretend  to  be  the 
ministers  of  Jesus  Christ  and  are  the  priests  of  the  Devil — 
priests  of  Baal ! 

Masonry  is  sun-worship  from  the  beginning  to  the  end. 

"Oh,"  you  say,  "Doctor,  we  carry  the  cross." 

That  cross  in  the  Thrice  Illustrious  Order  of  the  Cross  is  a 
symbol  drawn  upon  the  hand,  with  the  letters,  I.  H.  S.  These 
are  translated,  not  lesus  Hominum  Salvator,  but  /,  Baal,  H, 
Shah,  S,  Lisha,  "The  Lord  of  the  Three."  The  cross  does  not 
signify  the  Cross  of  Jesus  Christ  in  Masonry.  It  is  the  cross 
of  Baal-Sha-Lisha. 

I  have  shown  this  fully  in  "Secret  Societies,"  page  62,  where 
the  initiation  ceremony  ends  with  these  words: 

a  Knight — '  I  am  a  Christian.'     Most  Worthy  Provost — '  No  more.' " 

It  is  true — he  is  a  Christian  no  more:  for  the  mark  of  the 
Cross  is  the  mark  of  the  Beast. 

They  cannot  deny  it.  The  cross  is  not  the  symbol  of  the 
resurrection  of  Jesus,  although  they  carry  it  about  at  Easter 
time.  It  is  the  symbol  of  the  alleged  resurre  tion  of  Hiram 
Abiff  of  Tyre,  the  son  of  the  widow,  whom  the  Masons  allege 
was  raised  from  the  dead  by  King  Solomon. 

There  is  not  a  single  Mason  who  dares  deny  that.  The 
cross  in  Freemasonry  has  nothing  to  do  with  the  Cross  of 
Christ. 

I  say,  therefore,  that  these  ministers  who  are  themselves 
Masons,  and  go  through  all  the  humbug  with  Masons  at  Easter 
time,  are  liars.  They  are  imposing  upon  the  people  a  mass  of 
lies. 

There  is  positively  no  connection  between  the  Cross  of 
Christ  and  the  cross  of  Baal. 

In  fact,  when  the  Knight  of  the  Cross  becomes  in  the  next 
degree  a  Knight  of  the  Sun,  he  rejects  all  religion:  for  there 
he  is  told  the  following: 

"Behold,  my  dear  brother,  what  you  must  fight  against  and  destroy, 
before  you  can  come  to  the  knowledge  of  the  true  good  and  sovereign 


1 88  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

happiness!  Behold  this  monster  which  you  must  conquer — a  serpent 
which  we  detest  as  an  idol  that  is  adored  by  the  ignorant  and  vulgar  under 
the  name  of  Religion!" 

MASONRY   IS   THE    FOE   OF   ALL    RELIGION. 

I  printed  the  other  day  in  LEAVES  OF  HEALING  the  dedica- 
tion of  a  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  by  Bishop  Fowler,  in 
Pennsylvania.  I  gave  the  exact  text  of  the  rite  according  to 
his  own  manuscript.  (See  LEAVES  OF  HEALING,  Volume  V, 
Number  43,  pages  835-837.)  There  is  not,  in  all  that  service  of 
dedication,  one  single  mention  of  God,  the  Father;  God,  the 
Son ;  or  God,  the  Holy  Ghost.  It  is  simply  a  "  Great  Architect 
of  the  Universe,"  whoever  he  may  be. 

He  did  not  dare  mention  that  Name.  It  was  against  the 
Masonic  laws.  Why? 

He  placed  Baal  before  Jesus.  Masonry  was  superior  in  his 
eyes  to  Christianity,  and  he  was  a  traitor  to  his  Church  and  to 
God. 

MASONRY   IS   AT   HEART   ANTICHRISTIAN. 

Masonry,  although  outwardly  it  may  appear  to  be  friendly 
to  Christianity,  is  antagonistic  to  Christianity.  A  Jew  can  be 
a  Freemason.  An  infidel  can  be  a  Freemason.  A  Chinese 
Confucianist  can  be  a  Freemason.  A  Mohammedan  can  be  a 
Freemason. 

Does  a  Mohammedan  love  Jesus? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — He  hates  Him. 

Does  a  Jew  worship  Jesus  as  the  Son  of  God? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — He  hates  Him. 

Does  a  Confucianist  accept  Jesus  as  the  Son  of  God? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — He  hates  Him. 

But  all  these  can  become  Freemasons,  and  in  straight 
Masonry  can  go  right  on  for  thirty-three  degrees,  and  there  is 
nothing  to  prevent  them;  for  there  is  no  Christianity  in  Free- 
masonry at  all. 

I  therefore  say  that 

EVERY   MINISTER   WHO   IS    A    MASON   IS    A   HYPOCRITE,   A   LIAR,   A 
BETRAYER,    A   THIEF. 

He  pretends  to  be  a  Christian  when  he  is  not. 

He  pretends  to  be  true  when  he  is  false. 

He  pretends  to  uphold  the  Church  when  he  betrays  her. 

He  pretends  to  take  the  name  of  that  Church  to  spread  the 
Gospel  when  he  is  betraying  it. 

"Doctor,"  says  one,  "can  he  not  be  a  Christian  in  the 
pulpit  and  a  Mason  in  the  Lodge-room?" 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  189 

Could  your  husband  be  virtuous  in  your  home  and  virtuous 
in  the  house  of  a  harlot  with  whom  he  consorts? 

Audience—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Can  a  man  find  pleasure  in  the  company  of 
those  who  hate  Christ,  who  despise  His  Name  and  will  not 
speak  it,  and  yet  at  the  same  time  be  a  faithful  minister  of  that 
Christ  in  the  Church? 

Audience—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — He  cannot  do  it!     He  is  a  betrayer! 

Do  you  know  why  the  ministers  do  not  love  me?  It  is  be- 
cause I  have  said  this  again  and  again,  and  they  know  it.  You 
will  find  that  the  ministers  who  are  hating  me  and  are  preach- 
ing against  me  in  this  city  are  almost  without  exception  Masons 
or  Masonic  tools. 

I  know  what  I  do  in  saying  this.  I  know  that  I  expose  my 
life  to  Masonic  vengeance.  I  know  what  their  oaths  are.  I 
stand  here  tonight  and  I  defy  them  before  God  the  Almighty 
in  heaven.  I  defy  them.  If  they  can  take  my  life,  and  God 
will  permit  it,  let  my  life  go.  But  I  am  right  in  what  I  say. 
(Amen.)  If  I  die  for  it,  I  will  say  it. 

In  the  vows  of  the  "ne  plus  ultra"  of  Masonry,  the  Knights 
of  Kadosh,  the  Oath  compels  a  Knight  to  "sacrifice  the  traitors 
of  Masonry,"  and  to  "swear  submission  and  obedience  on  all 
occasions  without  any  restrictions,"  in  "every  matter  ordered  " 
by  his  superiors. 

I  desire  to  speak  concerning  the  Eastern  Star. 

IT    IS    NOT     RESPECTABLE    FOR     A    WOMAN     TO     BELONG   TO     THE 

EASTERN    STAR. 

I  tell  you  what  you  must  know  yourselves,  that  several 
chapters  of  the  Eastern  Star  have  been  closed. 

This  Order  is  supposed  to  be  the  Masonic  Order  for 
women. 

It  is  not  Masonry  at  all. 

They  are  not  taught  Masonry,  but  are  taught  a  trick  just 
simply  to  amuse  them. 

The  Eastern  Star  in  this  city  is  an  immoral  and  abominable 
thing  in  a  great  many  cases.  i 

The  charters  of  some  of  these  chapters  have  been  with- 
drawn in  this  and  other  cities  because  of  these  Eastern  Star 
orders  being  the  scene  of  immoralitv.  In  these  Eastern  Star 
chapters  male  Masons  are  permitted  to  enter,  and  to  make  the 
friendship  of  the  women  there.  Many  a  woman's  heart  has 
been  broken  by  a  friendship  made  by  a  Knight  Templar  or 
Mason  in  the  Eastern  Star  Lodge. 

I  know  of  what  I  am  speaking. 

I  have  the  confession  from  the  guilty  men  themselves,  who 
are  now  good  Christians, 


1 90  ZION'S  HOLY    WAR. 

I  have  the  confession  from  the  women  themselves,  who  are 
now  penitent  and  good  Christians. 

FOUL    IMMORALITY   BRED    IN    EASTERN   STAR    LODGES. 

This  is  their  confession:  In  these  chapters  of  the  Eastern 
Star,  engagements  are  made  at  the  time  when  they  are  going  to 
great  convocations  of  Masons  in  distant  parts  of  this  country. 
When  the  train  starts,  Sir  Knight  John  Jones  meets  Miss  Mag- 
gie Smith  at  the  train.  They  pass  into  the  train  together. 
They  sit  in  the  same  compartment,  or  in  the  same  section. 
Before  they  reach  Denver,  or  some  other  place,  they  are  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Jones  by  profession.  When  they  go  to  the  hotel  in 
that  distant  place,  Sir  Knight  John  Jones  registers  them  as  Sir 
Knight  John  Jones  and  Mrs.  Jones.  That  has  been  done  not 
in  ones  or  twos,  nor  in  scores,  but  in  hundreds  of  cases.  It  is 
a  well-known  fact  amongst  Masons  themselves.  They  tell  upon 
each  other. 

Is  not  that  Eastern  Star  an  opportunity  for  the  grossest 
immorality? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Should  a  Christian  woman  be  connected  with  it? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — I  say  that  it  is  not  decent  for  a  woman  to  be 
connected  with  that  indecent  order. 

They  can  do  what  they  like.  They  can  carry  around  a 
pistol  and  shoot  me  if  they  get  a  chance,  but  I  am  going  to 
say  it.  I  am  going  to  say  it  because  it  is  true,  and  they  know 
it  is  true. 

They  themselves  have  closed  their  own  chapters  because 
of  their  immorality.  There  was  one  great  chapter  in  this  city 
closed. 

Miss  Ella  N.  Drake  gave  us  the  following  particulars  of 
her  experiences  in  connection  with  the  Order  of  the  Eastern 
Star.  (See  LEAVES  OF  HEALING  for  February  12,  1898,  Volume 
IV,  Number  16,  pages  311-312.) 

MISS   ELLA   M.    DRAKE'S   EXPERIENCE   IN   SECRET   SOCIETIES. 

In  1893  I  went  to  Elgin,  Illinois,  and  I  had  a  hungry  longing  for  Christian 
companionship  in  a  strange  place.  Hearing  of  the  Eastern  Star  Order  a 
little  bit,  and  connecting  with  the  name  the  Star  of  Bethlehem,  or  the  Light 
of  Jesus,  I  supposed  it  would  bring  me  in  closer  communion  with  His 
people;  so  I  was  initiated  into  the  order  about  September  of  1893. 

After  going  through  the  initiation,  which  comprised  a  certain  obligation 
that  bound  us  to  protect  one  another's  character,  and  in  love  to  do  all  we 
could  to  promote  truth,  and  love  to  one  another,  there  is  an  intermission, 
and  they  all  gather  around  you,  and  shake  hands  with  you,  and  welcome 
you  into  the  Order. 

One  very  nice,  refined-looking  old  lady,  with  gray  hair  (old  enough  to 
have  been  my  mother),  came  and  sat  down  by  me,  and  after  the  usual  pre- 
liminaries of  asking  questions,  she  began  to  tell  me  about  the  Worthy 
Matron,  whom  she  said  kept  company  with -people  of  ill-repute,  and  she 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  igi 

herself  was  said  to  have  questionable  company  at  the  house  when  her  hus- 
band (who  was  a  railroad  man)  was  away. 

I  had  promised  God  that  if  anybody  came  to  me  with  gossip  of  this  sort 
'Jiat  I  would  try  and  bring  the  two  together,  and  stop  the  nonsense.  This  I 
did,  making  a  very  fine  row,  and  one  thing  led  to  another  until  they  had  a 
trial  in  the  Chapter-room,  which  resulted  in  the  breaking  up  of  the  Order, 
inasmuch  as  out  of  one  hundred  and  twenty  members  ninety  or  more  started 
a  new  Chapter  under  the  name  of  Bethel  Chapter.  The  loving  "Brothers" 
sometimes  came  up  to  the  ladies,  while  standing  talking,  and  slipped  their 
arms  around  their  waists,  and  several  tried  the  same  with  me;  and  when  my 
anger  arose,  they  would  laughingly  say,  "We  are  brothers  and  sisters;  don't 
get  angry,  Miss  Drake."  But  I  did  get  angry,  as  I  always  remember  a  motto 
given  me  when  a  very  young  girl,  "  First  the  waist,  then  the  lips,  then  the 
girl's  gone." 

In  over  a  year's  time  I  came  back  to  the  city  from  Elgin  Chapter  No. 
212.  Before  placing  my  demit  in  the  city  I  visited  Queen  Esther  Chapter, 
one  of  the  largest  chapters;  Butler  Chapter,  Golden  Rod  Chapter,  and  other 
chapters.  The  Golden  Rod  Chapter  seemed  to  have  the  purest  Christian 
atmosphere.  So  I  placed  my  demit  with  them,  and  after  being  in  there 
some  time,  I  found  that  they  were  no  better  than  any  of  the  others  and  that 
the  jealous  feelings  existed  against  those  that  held  the  highest  offices,  the 
same  as  Elgin  Chapter  No.  212,  because  they  wished  to  gain  the  offices  for 
themselves.  The  unlawful  and  unholy  relations  between  some  of  the  men 
and  women,  who  had  the  reputation  and  appearance  of  being  the  best  edu- 
cated and  most  refined  in  the  Chapter,  was  the  cause  of  the  charter  being 
taken  from  them  by  the  Grand  Chapter. 

I  asked  for  my  demit  from  Golden  Rod  Chapter  before  going  to  New 
York  in  1895,  and  the  secretary  promised  faithfully  to  send  it  to  me,  but  I 
failed  to  receive  it,  if  she  sent  it,  and  therefore  cannot  give  my  demit.  To 
be  sure  the  beautiful  banquets,  etc.,  are  in  certain  ways  very  pleasant,  as 
well  as  expensive,  but  altogether  they  are  better  let  alone. 

This  is  a  mere  outline  of  the  experience  which  cost  me  quite  a  good 
deal  of  money,  time  and  unhappiness;  and  if  these  few  words  will  prevent 
others  from  making  the  same  mistake,  and  glorify  our  Lord  and  Master, 
Jesus  Christ,  I  shall  be  very  thankful. 

I  would  like  to  add,  also,  that  I  can  thank  Dr.  Dowie  for  his  teachings, 
although  I  withdrew  from  the  Lodge  before  I  heard  him,  yet  I  failed  to 
recognize  the  hand  of  God  in  leading  me  out. 

Not  being  able  to  bear  witness  Friday  afternoon,  I  write  this. 

May  God  keep  and  bless  you. 

Your  Sister  in  Christ,  (Miss)  ELLA  N.  DRAKE. 

I  do  not  hesitate  to  apply  this  evil  principle  and  unholy  and 
immoral  tendency  to  all  secrecy. 

"Oh,  but,  Doctor,"  says  some  one,  "many  of  the  Secret 
Societies  are  for  benevolent  purposes." 

IT   IS   A   PERFECT    FARCE   TO    CALL   SECRET   ORDERS    BENEVOLENT 

SOCIETIES. 

At  the  most,  what  do  they  give  you  back?  Only  the  money 
you  have  paid.  That  is  not  benevolence.  If  I  pay  money 
into  a  bank,  I  get  it  back  again.  Is  that  benevolence?  No. 
I  am  simply  getting  back  from  the  bank  my  own. 

But  when  you  pay  your  money  into  these  so-called  benevo- 
lent associations,  you  do  not  get  back  all  that'you  paid  in. 

In  the  aggregate  you  lose  thousands  and  tens  of  thousands 
of  dollars. 


192  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

How?  First,  it  is  spent  in  the  payment  of  salaries  of  the 
secretaries  and  treasurers.  Second,  there  is  a  drain  in  payment 
of  rent  for  the  lodge-rooms.  Third,  there  is  a  great  expense  in 
the  payment  for  festivals  that  take  place;  the  junketings  and 
the  banquetings,  all  of  which  come  out  of  the  fund.  The 
endowment  for  the  death  of  members  who  die  because  they  are 
drunkards,  and  die  from  cancers  because  they  will  eat  pork 
and  smoke  tobacco,  and  die  from  various  diseases,  because  of 
their  sins,  eats  up  your  money.  You  are  saddled  with  your 
proportion  of  all  those  things. 

Where  is  the  benevolence? 

You  have  been  a  great  loser,  and  the  society  has  been  a 
great  loser.  They  fail  on  every  side,  so  that  these  societies  are 
continually  in  the  bankruptcy  courts.  One  of  the  largest  of 
them  broke  up  the  other  day  in  Indianapolis.  Hundreds  of 
thousands  of  dollars  had  been  paid  into  it,  but  there  were 
exceedingly  small  assets. 

It  is  like  some  of  the  Land  and  Investment  Societies  of  this 
city.  A  brother  here  showed  me  the  other  night  his  papers, 
which  showed  that  the  society  would  soon  be  without  any 
assets  at  all,  but  with  a  great  many  liabilities.  That  is  just 
how  it  is. 

There  is  no  good,  sound  sense  in  your  putting  your  money 
into  these  stockings  with  a  big  hole  in  them. 

OTHER  FEARFUL  CONSEQUENCES  OF  SECRETISM. 

In  addition  to  this,  you  lose  your  time.  You  grieve  your 
wife.  You  cannot  train  your  family.  You  go  away  and  spend 
nights  when  your  wife  is  weeping  and  waiting  and  watching. 
You  get  into  bad  company.  You  go  to  the  houses  of  bad 
women,  oftentimes  taken  there  by  bad  companions.  You  begin 
to  swear  and  you  begin  to  smoke. 

When  your  wife  asks  you  where  you  have  been,  you  tell  her 
that  is  none  of  her  business.  You  do  not  care  to  tell;  you  are 
ashamed  to  tell;  you  do  not  dare  to  tell  where  you  have  been. 
At  last  you  curse  and  swear.  You  cannot  bear  to  hear  the 
voice  of  your  wife  and  your  dear  children.  You  strike  at  them, 
and  are  cross  with  them.  You  are  cross  with  everything.  You 
are  losing  your  money,  losing  your  health,  losing  your  immor- 
tal spirit.  You  are  going  down  to  death  and  hell.  Many  have 
landed  there  long  ago. 

BENEFITS   IN    KEEPING   OUT   OF   SECRET   SOCIETIES. 

If  you  save  your  money,  and  put  it  into  good  and  proper 
investments,  you  will  make  far  more  of  it. 

A  Zion  man  is  thirty  or  forty  per  cent  ahead  of  another  man 
who  earns  the  same  wages.  Zion's  men,  do  you  spend  one 
single  cent  upon  doctors  or  drugs? 

Voices—"  No," 


ZION'S   HOLY    WAR.  193 

Dr.  Dowie — Do  you  spend  one  single  cent  upon  Secret 
Societies? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Do  you  spend  one  single  cent  upon  gambling? 

Voices— "No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Do  you  spend  one  single  cent  upon  immorality? 

Voices— "No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Do  you  spend  one  single  cent  upon  liquor  or 
tobacco? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — How  much  out  of  every  ten  dollars  which  the 
average  workman  receives  does  he  spend  upon  these  things? 
Four? 

Voices — "Yes;  often  much  more." 

Dr.  Dowie — From  an  investigation  continued  over  a  great 
many  years,  I  am  persuaded  that  the  members  of  the  Christian 
Catholic  Church  are  at  least  four  dollars  out  of  every  ten,  on 
the  average,  ahead  of  their  neighbors  who  spend  their  money 
in  these  secret  and  wicked  ways.  So  when  a  Zion  man  has 
given  his  tenth  to  his  God  as  God  commands,  he  is  at  least 
three  dollars  ahead  of  the  other  fellow  who  serves  the  Devil, 
often  pretending,  at  the  same  time,  to  be  a  Christian. 

A    ZION    MAN    HAS    MORE    THAN    A    FINANCIAL    ADVANTAGE. 

He  has,  in  addition,  a  happy  home,  a  healthy,  happy  wife, 
and  happy  children.  When  he  comes  home  he  kisses  his  wife; 
he  does  not  kick  her.  He  loves  her.  He  does  not  grumble  at 
her.  He  cares  for  the  baby,  and  interests  himself  in  the 
children,  and  helps  to  make  home  happy. 

He  is  not  in  such  a  hurry  to  get  out  as  he  used  to  be  when 
he  would  say,  "Now,  you  stand  around,  Mary!  You  stand 
around,  children!  You  all  stand  around.  I  am  a  big  Mason; 
I  am  an  Elk;  I  am  a  Buffalo;  I  am  a  Red  Man!  Get  me  my 
apron!  Hurry  up!  I  am  off  to  the  Elks!"  (Laughter.) 
Nice  fellow  that  is,  isn't  he?  (Applause.) 

Ugh!  Delightful  husband!  Has  he  not  broken  his  vow  to 
his  wife? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  he  not  say  he  would  love  her?  Did  he 
not  say  he  would  cherish  her?  Did  he  not  say  he  would  pro- 
tect her,  forsaking  all  others,  and  keep  only  to  her  as  long  as 
she  lived?  Yet  he  belongs  to  the  Lodge,  and  to  the  Devil. 
He  belongs  often  to  the  harlot,  the  saloonkeeper  and  the 
gambler.  He  is  a  false  swearer! 

That  is  not  very  poetical,  but  it  is  very  practical.  (Laugh- 
ter.) 

There  are  less  than  six  hundred  Protestant  churches  in  this 
city,  but  there  are  many  thousands  of  Secret  Society  Lodges. 


1 94  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

How  is  it  possible  for  the  Church  of  God  to  triumph  when 
its  members  tonight  are  being  hit  upon  the  head  with  a  mallet 
by  Jebulum  when  they  are  pretending  to  be  Hiram  Abiff? 
How  is  it  possible  for  the  churches  to  be  blessed  tonight  when 
the  ministers  are  so  busy  taking  their  degrees?  They  have  no 
time  to  bring  sinners  to  Christ — they  are  "in  darkness,  help- 
lessness and  ignorance,"  according  to  Mackay's  Manual,  "seek- 
ing the  new  birth  into  Masonic  life."  What  a  farce! 

A  "Masonic"  Episcopal  Conference  in  Oakland,  California, 
expelled  two  of  its  best  ministers  last  month. 

There  was  nothing  against  their  characters. 

They  admitted  that  they  were  good  men,  and  had  a  good 
record.  What  did  they  expel  them  for?  For  circulating 
"Dowie  literature." 

METHODISTS     ADMIT     THEY     HAVE     NOTHING     IN     COMMON     WITH 

ZION   TEACHING. 

What  did  they  say  when  they  expelled  them?  They  said 
that  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  had  nothing  in  common 
with  the  Dowie  teachings. 

I  believe  that  that  was  true. 

I  preach  Repentance. 

They  preach  it  with  their  tongue  in  their  cheek.  Do  they 
insist  upon  repentance  in  their  converts? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Do  they  preach  loyalty  to  Christ  above  all? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Are  they  living  it? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Are  they  preaching  Salvation  and  Healing  and 
Holiness  in  their  churches. 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — They  have  nothing  in  common  with  the  Dowie 
teachings.  I  knew  that  long  ago,  because  they  have  every- 
thing in  common  with  the  Devil.  (Laughter.) 

I  knew  they  had  gone  to  the  Devil  long  ago. 

You  will  see  a  cartoon  in  LEAVES  OF  HEALING,  Volume  VI, 
Number  3,  page  72,  in  which  our  artist,  Mr.  Champe,  has  most 
beautifully  illustrated  a  Methodist  Bishop  who  has  nothing  in 
common  with  Dr.  Dowie.  He  has  a  big  basket  in  his  arm  full 
of  snakes,  drugs  and  other  abominations.  He  has  a  Masonic 
goat  under  his  right  arm,  a  pig,  emblem  of  Disease,  under  the 
left  arm,  and  is  holding  a  ribbon  with  a  pug  at  the  end  of  it. 
That  is  "Society."  He  is  looking  at  Zion,  who  is  pointing  to 
Repentance,  and  is  saying,  "I  have  nothing  in  common  with 
you."  (Laughter  and  applause.) 

I  am  always  pleased  to  see  the  people  standing  at  the  win. 
dow  of  Zion  Publishing  House  looking  at  these  cartoons. 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  195 

They  are  wonderfully  instructive.  They  are  both  edifying 
and  diverting  to  the  honest  people.  But  they  are  very  morti- 
fying to  those  whose  sins  they  so  cleverly  expose. 

The  time  is  coming  when  LEAVES  OF  HEALING,  the  ZION 
MORNING  SUN,  and  the  ZION  EVENING  STAR  will  drive  the 
wretched  men  who  now  control  the  daily  press  out  of  their 
offices:  for  Christ  is  Conqueror. 

When  the  time  comes  for  God  Almighty  to  take  charge  of 
the  press  of  this  city,  there  is  going  to  be  an  end  of  these  dirty, 
lying  papers.  It  is  time  they  were  dead.  It  is  time  these 
papers  were  buried  where  they  could  never  hope  for  resurrec- 
tion. I  desire  to  say 

A   WORD    CONCERNING   OFFICIAL    FALSE    SWEARING. 

When  a  man  enters  the  Legislature  he  takes  the  oath  of 
office  that  he  will  serve  the  people  honestly,  does  he  not? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — When  a  man  enters  upon  judicial  work  in  this 
city,  does  he  not  promise  he  will  be  a  righteous  judge  and  give 
righteous  decisions? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Do  the  legislators  and  the  judges  keep  that 
oath? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — You  all  know  that  they  do  not.  They  do  not 
pretend  to.  There  are  villains  in  hundreds  in  the  highest  pub- 
lic places. 

In  the  Congress  in  Washington  there  are  scoundrels  who 
never  pretend  to  do  anything  but  serve  their  own  bellies  by 
being  congressmen.  They  may  make  patriotic  speeches  for 
the  purpose  of  misleading  the  people,  but  they  are  down  in 
Washington  to  take  care  of  their  own  interests.  There  is  no 
help  to  be  gotten  from  them,  unless  you  pay  for  it. 

How  do  I  know?     I  have  been  there. 

I  know  whereof  I  speak.  I  know  more  than  I  have  ever 
said. 

I    INTEND    TO    FIGHT   THE    ABUSES    AT   WASHINGTON. 

One  day,  when  I  unlimber  all  my  guns,  there  will  be  a  gen- 
eral engagement  all  along  the  line. 

I  am  getting  to  know  more  and  more  every  day.  The 
nature  of  my  position  gives  me  accurate  information.  I  have 
it,  and  intend  to  use  it. 

They  say,  "  No,  you  shall  not.  We  will  kill  you."  But  God 
will  protect  me  until  my  work  is  done.  (Amen.) 

I  do  not  care  to  live  a  minute  after  that.  I  would  like  to 
go  out  of  this  earth  just  as  soon  as  I  could  get  out  of  it  with 
honor. 


10  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

I  love  my  wife;  I  love  my  children;  I  love  my  work;  I  love 
my  brothers.  But  if -you  told  me  tonight  I  should  wake  up  in 
heaven  tomorrow  morning,  I  should  be  mightily  thankful. 

I  should  love  to  think  that  mine  eyes  should  see  the  King 
in  His  glory  in  the  land  which  is  afar  off.  I  should  love  to 
think  that  tomorrow  morning  I  should  see  the  Face  which  was 
once  spit  upon  for  me,  and  the  Head  which  was  once  crowned 
with  thorns.  I  long  to  hear  the  Voice  of  Him  whose  Voice,  in 
the  Spirit,  I  have  so  often  heard,  my  Lord,  my  King  and  my  God. 

I  should  love  to  see  the  loved  ones  who  have  gone  before. 
I  should  love  to  be  with  God  in  the  City  of  Everlasting  Life. 
It  will  be  a  happy  day  the  day  I  leave  this  earth. 

Perhaps  it  will  not  be  so  happy  for  many  who  are  left  behind, 
but  it  will  be  a  happy  day  for  me. 

I  am  not  afraid.  I  have  never  been  afraid  at  any  time  in 
my  life.  God  took  fear  out  of  my  heart  when  I  was  a  child. 
When  He  put  His  Love  into  my  heart,  He  also  gave  me  a 
fearless  spirit. 

Perfect  love  casts  out  fear.  It  is  because  I  am  not  afraid 
that  I  am  willing  to  live,  and  I  am  willing  to  love,  and  I  am 
willing  to  serve  my  fellowmen.  I  am  willing,  if  need  be,  to  die 
for  Christ.  I  believe  that  spirit  is  in  all  in  Zion,  and  that  spirit 
is  growing.  And  I  believe  God  will  spare  me  to  fully  establish 
Zion  City  as  the  Headquarters  of  the  worldwide  work  of  the 
Christian  Catholic  Church. 

Zion  is  in  every  part  of  this  city.  Zion  is  seeking  the  per- 
ishing from  house  to  house,  street  to  street  and  lane  to  lane. 
Zion  is  bringing  men  to  God  out  of  sin,  and  bringing  women 
from  the  streets  into  the  Home  of  Hope  which  we  have  for 
them.  Zion  is  doing  Her  work.  She  is  going  to  do  it  better 
and  better  as  the  days  roll  on. 

I  witness  tonight  against  the  False  Swearers.  And  I  ask 
you  now  to  make  a  True  Vow  to  God  that  you  will  get  out  of 
all  evil  associations,  and  that  you  will  serve  Him. 

CALL. 

Every  one  who  is  determined  to  serve  God  first,  last  and  all 
the  time,  stand  and  tell  Him  so.  (A  large  number  arose.) 

PRAYER   OF   CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me 
power  to  do  right,  no  matter  what  it  costs.  Give  me  Thy  Holy  Spirit,  and 
enable  me  to  trust  Thee  with  my  spirit,  soul  and  body.  Help  me  to  break 
every  bad  vow,  and  to  get  away  from  every  bad  association,  and  to  do  my 
duty  to  my  fellowmen,  to  my  family,  to  Thee,  my  God,  to  Thy  Church,  and 
to  the  poor  and  the  perishing,  for  Jesus'  sake.  (All  repeat  the  prayer, 
clause  by  clause,  after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

Did  you  mean  that  prayer,  and  will  you  live  it? 
Audience— "Yes." 


ZION'S   HOLY    WAR.  1 97 

After  the  Doxology  had  been  sung  the  services  were  closed 
by  Dr.  Dowie  pronouncing  the 

BENEDICITION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil.  And  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 
grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you,  bless 
you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 


SERMON— A  TRUE    BAPTISM  A   SEAL  OF   A  TRUE   CHURCH. 


ON  the  afternoon  of  Lord's  Day,  November  12,  1899,  the 
General  Overseer  addressed  an  audience  of  two  thousand 
five  hundred  people  in  Central  Zion  Tabernacle  on  the  subject 
of  Baptism. 

One  of  the  great  seals  of  Zion  has  been  the  ordinance  of 
Believers'  Baptism  by  Triune  Immersion.  More  than  eight 
thousand  Christians  have  been  blessed  in  obeying  their  Lord's 
command  in  this  matter  since  1893,  of  which  five  thousand 
three  hundred  and  ninety-two  have  been  baptized  within  the 
past  two  years  and  eight  months. 

Hence  it  was  most  opportune  that  the  General  Overseer 
should  give  this  important  teaching  on  this  occasion,  when  so 
many  had  made  repentance  and  confession  and  had  begun  to 
follow  God  as  a  result  of  the  first  few  weeks  of  Zion's  Holy 
War.  A.  w.  N. 


Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  Lord's  Day  Afternoon,  November  12,  1899. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing  Hymn  No.  195: 

Our  Lord  is  now  rejected, 

And  by  the  world  disowned, 
By  the  many  still  neglected, 

And  by  the  few  enthrowned ; 
But  soon  He'll  come  in  glory, 

The  hour  is  drawing  nigh, 
For  the  crowning  day  is  coming 

By  and  by. 

SCRIPTURE    READING    AND    EXPOSITION. 

Dr.  Dowie  then  read  in  the  Inspired  Word  of  God,  first  in 
the  Gospel  according  to  St.  Luke,  a  part  of  the  first  chapter: 

The  beginning  of  the  Gospel  of  Jesus  Christ,  the  Son  of  God. 

Even  as  it  is  written  in  Isaiah  the  Prophet,  Behold,  I  send  my  messen- 
ger before  Thy  face,  who  shall  prepare  Thy  way; 

The  voice  of  one  crying  in  the  wilderness,  Make  ye  ready  the  way  of 
the  Lord,  make  His  paths  straight ; 

John  came,  who  baptized  in  the  wilderness  and  preached  the  Baptism  of 
repentance  unto  remission  of  sins.  And  there  went  out  unto  him  all  the 
country  of  Judea,  and  all  they  of  Jerusalem ;  and  they  were  baptized  of  him 
War— 199 


200  ZION'S   HOLY   WAR. 

in  the  River  Jordan,  confessing  their  sins.  And  John  was  clothed  with 
camel's  hair,  and  had  a  leathern  girdle  about  his  loins,  and  did  eat  locusts 
and  wild  honey. 

If  any  one  has  an  idea  that  John  the  Baptist  was  a  very 
uncouth  man,  let  me  for  just  a  moment  pause  and  tell  you  who 
John  the  Baptist  was. 

He  was  the  son  of  Zacharias  the  priest,  of  the  Course  of 
Abijah,  one  of  the  great  orders  of  priesthood.  His  birth  was 
made  known  by  an  angel  to  Zacharias,  when  he  was  sacrificing 
in  the  Temple. 

John  was  therefore  a  priest  by  hereditary  descent.  He 
belonged  to  the  tribe  which  had  the  right  to  minister  in  the 
Temple.  He  was  educated  as  the  child  of  a  wealthy  man,  for 
the  priests  were  wealthy  and  "high  in  social  station.  There 
was  no  higher  rank,  socially,  than  that  of  the  higher  priest- 
hood. 

When  the  time  came  that,  by  law,  he  was  permitted  to 
exercise  the  office  of  priest,  God  called  him  to  the  higher  office 
of  prophet. 

This  camel's  hair  is  not  a  poor,  mean  garb.  If  you  were 
to  be  robed  in  camel's  hair,  it  would  be  more  costly  than  the 
finest  silk.  It  was  the  outer  garment  of  men  of  high  rank;  of 

?riestly  and  prophetic  rank,  men  of  culture  and  ability.     When 
ohn  preached  at  the  Jordan   he  was  not  an  untaught  or  an 
unknown  man. 

He  was  the  wonderful  son  of  Zacharias,  whose  birth  had 
been  prophesied  by  an  angel,  and  around  whose  beginning 
there  was  woven  an  air  of  mystery  which  made  them  to  won- 
der who  he  was.  Although  he  denied  that  he  was  Elijah  when 
the  priests  asked  him,  Jesus  swept  away  his  denial  and  said 
that  John  the  Baptist  was  Elijah  the  Prophet. 

John   did    not  know  it.      There    were   many  things  which 
John  did  not  know,  until  God   revealed  them.     He    did    not 
know  who  the  Christ  was  until   He  came  to  the  Jordan  for 
Baptism. 
John  said: 

He  that  sent  me  to  baptize  with  water,  He  said  unto  me,  Upon  whom- 
soever thou  shalt  see  the  Spirit  descending  and  abiding  upon  Him,  the 
same  is  He  that  baptizeth  in  the  Holy  Spirit.  And  I  have  seen,  and  I  have 
borne  witness  that  this  is  the  Son  of  God. 

This  was  the  witness  of  John,  and  there  never  stood  upon 
this  earth,  next  to  Christ,  a  greater  prophet. 

And  he  preached,  saying,  There  cometh  after  me  He  that  is  mightier 
than  I,  the  latchet  of  whose  shoes  I  am  not  worthy  to  stoop  down  and 
unloose.  I  baptize  you  in  water;  but  He  shall  baptize  you  in  the  Holy 
Ghost. 

And  it  came  to  pass  in  those  days,  that  Jesus  came  from  Nazareth  to 
Galilee,  and  was  baptized  of  John  in  the  Jordan.  And  straightway  coming 
up  out  of  the  water,  He  saw  the  heavens  rent  asunder,  and  the  Spirit  as  a 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  2OI 

dove  descending  upon  Him:  and  a  Voice  came  out  of  the  heavens,  Thou 
art  My  beloved  Son,  in  Thee  I  am  well  pleased. 

THE    PASSAGE   WHICH    GIVES   TO    BAPTISM    ITS    FINAL    FORM. 

We  now  come  to  the  Ordinance  as  it  was  established  after 
the  resurrection  of  Jesus  Christ  from  the  dead.  I  will  read  in 
the  twenty-eighth  chapter  of  the  Gospel  according  to  St. 
Matthew,  beginning  at  the  sixteenth  verse.  These  words  were 
written  after  Jesus  had  died  and  had  been  resurrected : 

But  the  eleven  disciples  went  into  Galilee,  unto  the  mountain  where 
Jesus  had  appointed  them.  And  when  they  saw  Him,  they  worshiped 
Him :  but  some  doubted.  And  Jesus  came  to  them  and  spake  unto  them, 
saying,  All  authority— 

Not  power  merely,  authority.  Power  is  a  great  thing,  but 
power  may  be  in  bad  hands.  It  may  be  a  usurper  who  has  the 
power.  It  may  be  a  rebel  who  seizes  power.  Power  is  great, 
but  authority  is  greater.  Sometimes,  for  a  little  while,  the 
power  is  on  the  wrong  side,  while  the  authority  is  with  the 
minority.  But  the  day  will  finally  come  when  all  power  and 
all  rule  which  is  contrary  to  Divine  authority  will  be  suppressed 
and  destroyed.  Then  He  shall  put  all  rule  and  all  authority 
which  is  evil  under  His  feet. 

And  Jesus  came  to  them  and  spake  unto  them,  saying,  All  authority 
hath  been  given  unto  Me  in  heaven  and  on  earth.  Go  ye  therefore,  and 
make  disciples  of  all  the  nations,  baptizing  them  into  the  Name  of  the  Father 
and  of  the  Son  and  of  the  Holy  Ghost:  teaching  them  to  observe  all  things 
whatsoever  I  commanded  you :  and  lo,  I  am  with  you  alway,  even  unto  the 
end  of  the  world. 

In  the  Acts  of  the  Apostles  I  shall  read  first  in  the  second 
chapter.  The  first  part  of  this  chapter  is  taken  up  with  the 
wonderful  manifestation  of  the  Holy  Spirit  upon  the  Day  of 
Pentecost. 

I  read  the  closing  words  of  the  Apostle  Peter's  sermon: 

This  Jesus  did  God  raise  up,  whereof  we  all  are  witnesses.  Being  there- 
fore by  the  right  hand  of  God  exalted,  and  having  received  of  the  Father 
the  promise  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  He  hath  poured  forth  this  which  ye  see  and 
hear.  For  David  ascended  not  into  the  heavens:  but  he  saith  himself, 

The  Lord  said  unto  my  Lord,  Sit  Thou  on  my  right  Hand, 

Till  I  make  thine  enemies  the  footstool  of  Thy  feet. 

Let  all  the  house  of  Israel  therefore  know  assuredly,  that  God  hath 
made  Him  both  Lord  and  Christ,  this  Jesus  whom  ye  crucified. 

Now  then  when  they  heard  this,  they  were  pricked  in  their  heart,  and 
said  unto  Peter  and  the  rest  of  the  Apostles,  Brethren,  what  shall  we  do? 
And  Peter  said  unto  them,  Repent  ye,  and  be  baptized  every  one  of  you  in 
the  Name  of  Jesus  Christ  unto  the  remission  of  your  sins;  and  ye  shall 
receive  the  gift  of  the  Holy  Ghost.  For  to  you  is  the  promise,  and  to  your 
children,  and  to  all  that  are  afar  off,  even  as  many  as  the  Lord  our  God 
shall  call  unto  Him.  And  with  many  other  words  he  testified,  and  exhorted 
them,  saying,  Save  yourself  from  this  crooked  generation.  They  then  that 
received  his  word  were  baptized:  and  there  were  added  unto  them  in  that 
day  about  three  thousand  souls.  And  they  continued  steadfastly  in  the 
apostles'  teaching  and  fellowship,  in  the  breaking  of  bread  and  the  prayers. 

And  fear  came  upon  every  soul :  and  many  wonders  and  signs  were 
done  by  the  apostles.  And  all  that  believed  were  together,  and  had  all 


202  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

things  common ;  and  they  sold  their  possessions  and  goods,  and  parted  them 
to  all,  according  as  any  man  had  need.  And  day  by  day,  continuing  stead- 
fastly with  one  accord  in  the  Temple,  and  breaking  bread  at  home,  they  did 
take  their  food  with  gladness  and  singleness  of  heart,  praising  God,  and 
having  favor  with  all  the  people.  And  the  Lord  added  to  them  day  by  day 
those  that  were  being  saved. 

May  God  bless  His  Word. 

Prayer  was  then  offered  by  Dr.   Dowie,  after  which    the 
announcements  were  made  and  the  offerings  received. 


A  TRUE    BAPTISM   A   SEAL    OF   A  TRUE   CHURCH. 


Dr.  Dowie  then  delivered  the  following  address: 

INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight  and  be  profitable  unto  this  people,  and  unto  all  to  whom 
these  words  shall  come,  in  this  and  every  land,  in  this  and  all  the  coming 
time,  till  Jesus  come,  for  His  sake.  Amen. 

The  various  passages  of  Scripture  which  I  have  read  to  you 
this  afternoon  shall  be  my  general  text  for  the  discourse. 

I  am  to  speak  to  you  upon  "A  True  Baptism  a  Seal  of  a 
True  Church." 

CIRCUMCISION   AND    BAPTISM    NOT  ANALAGOUS. 

Under  the  ancient  dispensation,  Circumcision  and  not  Bap- 
tism was  the  initiatory  right  of  an  Israelite. 

There  was  really  no  Church  in  existence. 

We  sometimes,  for  convenience  sake,  speak  of  the  "Jewish 
Church,"  but  the  term  is  not  used  in  Scripture,  and  there  was 
no  Jewish  Church  at  all. 

The  first  time  that  a  Church  was  formed  was  when  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ  formed  it. 

The  rite  of  circumcision  among  the  Israelites  and  in  the 
Mosaic  Dispensation  has  no  analogy  whatever  to  Baptism. 

The  rite  of  circumcision  most  clearly  marked  out  the  nation. 

Circumcision  of  the  flesh  marked  a  jew  everywhere.  It  was 
impossible  for  a  Jewish  man  to  escape  recognition.  His  body 
had  the  mark.  That  rite  was  a  bloody  one  performed  with  a 
sharp  knife.  It  was  intended  to  mark  the  nation  by  a  distinc- 
tion which  should  not  be  obliterated,  and  it  did  so. 

God  did  not  form  a  Church  in  Israel,  nor  is  it  God's  final 
purpose  to  establish  His  people  as  a  Church. 

The  Church  is  formed  to  be  the  means  of  establishing  an 
"Everlasting  Kingdom"  and  a  "Holy  Nation":  for,  finally, 
there  will  be  only  one  Nation,  one  King,  and  one  Universal 
Kingdom. 

The  foolish  and  false  doctrine  has  been  taught,  and  is  being 
taught,  that  circumcision  in  what  they  are  pleased  to  call  the 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  203 

Jewish  Church  was  replaced  by  the  ordinance  of  Divine  Bap- 
tism in  the  Christian  Church. 

My  first  allegation  is  that  there  was  no  Jewish  Church. 

Second,  there  is  no  such  thing  as  infant  baptism  in  the  Bible. 

It  is  a  perfect  farce  to  say  there  is.  There  is  not  one  man 
upon  God's  earth  who  can  put  his  finger  upon  a  single  passage 
in  the  New  Testament  which  says  that  either  Jesus  Christ  or 
any  of  the  apostles  ever  baptized  a  baby. 

I  will  give  him  a  million  dollars  if  he  can. 

I  will  be  safe  in  saying  it,  although  I  have  not  the  million. 
The  million  is  quite  safe.  But  I  will  beg  it;  borrow  it;  toil  for 
it.  I  will  not  steal  it,  but  I  will  find  him  a  million  dollars  if  he 
can  find  me  a  passage  which  tells  of  Jesus  or  any  of  the  apostles 
baptizing  a  baby. 

It  is  not  there. 

THERE   WAS   NO   JEWISH    CHURCH. 

There  was  a  Nation,  and  every  individual  in  that  nation  was 
under  the  covenant  which  God  made  with  Abraham:  "Unto 
thee  and  unto  thy  seed." 

It  was  not  a  question  at  all  of  spiritual  regeneration.  A 
man  had  a  right  to  all  the  services  of  the  Jewish  Church,  in  the 
Mosaic  Dispensation,  because  he  was  an  Israelite. 

It  was  what  the  Friends  or  Quakers  call  a  birthright.  They 
say,  "  a  Friend  by  birthright."  That  is  all  a  humbug,  you  know. 
You  cannot  make  a  man  a  Christian  by  hereditary  descent. 
He  has  to  be  born  of  God.  There  is  no  such  thing  as  a  "her- 
editary Christianity,"  no  matter  what  the  "  Friends  "  may  say. 

What  was  the  rite  of  Baptism? 

Our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  is  not  the  founder  of  the  rite  of  Bap- 
tism. 

Our  Lord  Jesus  Christ — I  am  speaking  of  Him  as  in  the 
flesh — was  not  the  first  preacher  of  the  Gospel. 

This  first  chapter  of  Mark  says  that  the  Gospel  was  begun 
to  be  preached  before  Jesus  Christ  was  recognized  as  the  Christ 
at  all. 

John  the  Baptist  was  the  opener  of  the  door,  the  porter. 
Jesus  v/as  proclaimed  by  him  to  be  the  Christ,  the  Son  of  God, 
"The  Lamb  of  God  which  taketh  away  the  sin  of  the 
world." 

John  the  Baptist  was.  the  first  preacher  of  the  Gospel.  He 
preached  that  there  was  One  coming  after  him,  "the  latchet  of 
whose  shoes  I  am  not  worthy  to  stoop  down  and  unloose."  He 
preached  that  He  would  baptize  in  the  Holy  Ghost  and  in  fire. 

When  Christ  came,  what  did  He  do?  Before  He  could 
enter  upon  His  ministry  He  went  down  to  the  Jordan,  and  there 
presented  Himself  for  baptism  amidst  a  crowd  of  sinful  men 
and  women,  brought  out  of  Jerusalem  and  all  Judea  and  all 


204  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

parts  around  by  the  eloquence  and  the  Divine  Authority  of 
this  mighty  Prophet  who  had  suddenly  appeared. 

Amidst  a  crowd  of  sinners  the  sinless  Christ  presented  Him- 
self, with  His  hands  hard  from  the  toil  of  a  Nazarene  carpenter 
shop. 

He  was  a  working  man. 

CHRISTIANITY    IS   ESSENTIALLY    THE    RELIGION   OF    WORKINGMEN. 

My  Father  worketh  hitherto,  and  I  work. 

It  is  a  religion  for  the  worker. 

There  is  no  possibility  of  extending  Christianity  to  the  man 
who  does  not  work. 

The  man  who  does  not  work  has  no  right  to  eat  in  the 
Church  of  God. 

"He  that  will  not  work,*5  said  the  apostle,  "neither  shall  he 
eat." 

There  is  no  Bread  of  God  to  be  given  to  the  lazy,  voluptu- 
ous wretch.  He  has  no  right  to  live  on  God's  earth.  He  is  a 
curse.  No  man  or  woman  has  a  right  to  be  lazy,  even  if  he  or 
she  has  a  hundred  million  dollars. 

There  is  no  place  in  the  Church,  there  is  no  place  in  the 
world,  there  is  no  place  short  of  hell  for  a  lazy  man  or  a  lazy 
woman.  Spiritual  tramps  who  will  not  work  have  no  place  in 
heaven. 

Christ,  the  Toiler,  the  Son  of  God,  came,  and  He  said  to 
John  the  Baptist,  "Baptize  Me." 

John  shrank,  for  John  saw  something.  He  had  the  prophetic 
vision,  and  he  saw  what  other  eyes  could  not  see.  He  saw  the 
Sign  which  the  Eternal  God  had  given  him;  the  Sign  of  the 
Holy  Ghost  descending.  All  at  once  he  recognized  in  his 
cousin,  Jesus,  the  Son  of  Mary,  of  whom  no  doubt  Elizabeth 
had  often  spoken  to  him,  the  Lamb  of  God.  Zacharias  had 
told  him  that  he  was  to  be  the  Forerunner  of  the  Highest,  but 
he  did  not  know  who  He  was.  It  was  concealed  from  him  who 
that  Messiah  was,  and  not  until  he  saw  Him  in  the  waters  did 
he  recognize  Him. 

Then  he  bowed  himself  and  cried,  "I  have  need  to  be  bap- 
tized of  Thee,  and  comest  Thou  to  me."  The  Christ  said, 
"Suffer  it  now;  for  thus  it  becometh  us  to  fulfil  all  righteous- 
ness. Then  he  suffered  Him,"  and  they  went  down  into  that 
water. 

The  word  baptize  has  a  certain  definite  meaning  in  the 
Greek  tongue.  There  is  no  escaping  its  meaning.  It  has  noth- 
ing to  do  with  sprinkling. 

I  happened  to  buy  a  small  classical  Greek  dictionary  a  few 
weeks  ago,  for  use  when  traveling.  It  is  published  by  Hinds 
&  Noble,  in  New  York,  for  schools  and  colleges,  and  not  for 
theologians  at  all.  In  it,  as  in  all  good  Greek  dictionaries, 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  205 

the  word  baptizo  (/?a7m£o>)  is  translated  "  to  dip  repeatedly"  and 
"dip  under." 

It  is  not  simply  to  dip,  but  to  dip  under  repeatedly. 

THE    MEANING   OF    THE   WORD    TRANSLATED     BAPTIZE    IS    TO   DIP 

REPEATEDLY. 

It  is  used  in  the  Greek  of  a  woman  washing  a  dish.  She 
dips  it;  and,  if  it  is  not  perfectly  clean,  she  dips  it  several 
times  to  get  it  clean. 

That  is  the  trouble  with  some  of  you,  you  have  not  been 
dipped  often  enough.  (Laughter.) 

In  Mark  7:4  the  words  "washings  of  cups  and  pots,  and 
brazen  vessels"  is  in  the  original,  "the  baptizing vi  cups,"  etc. 

I  see  the  Holy  Trinity  in  John's  Baptism  of  Jesus  in  the 
Jordan. 

I  see  God  the  Father  saying  from  the  heavens,  "This  is  My 
beloved  Son."  I  see  the  Holy  Ghost  descending  upon  Him, 
and  I  see  the  Son  of  God  there  Himself. 

I  see  the  Triune  God  in  that  Baptism. 

CHRIST    HAS   ALL   AUTHORITY     GIVEN     TO     HIM    ON    EARTH   AND    IN 

HEAVEN. 

After  Christ  arose  from  the  dead,  He  assumed  all  authority 
in  the  heavens  and  on  earth. 

He  said  it. 

He  either  lied  when  He  said  it,  or  He  has  it. 

Either  Jesus  Christ  has  all  power  and  authority  in  heaven 
and  on  earth,  or  else  He  lied. 

I  do  not  believe  He  lied;  do  you? 

Audience — "  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — I  believe  He  has  it,  and,  therefore,  I  will  obey 
Him  above  all  men.  I  do  not  care  what  men  say.  I  am  going 
to  do  what  Jesus  says,  even  if  it  brings  me  into  collision  with 
everybody.  (Amen.) 

I  must  obey  Him. 

What  did  He  say  about  Baptism? 

After  He  arose  from  the  dead,  He  spent  forty  days  with  the 
eleven.  During  that  forty  days  I  think  He  appeared  once  to 
five  hundred.  He  seems  never  to  have  taught  the  multitudes. 
In  fact,  it  is  expressly  stated  in  the  Acts  of  the  Apostles  that 
He  taught  His  disciples.  He  went  before  them  into  Galilee, 
and  there  He  taught  them. 

The  remarkable  thing  is  that,  beyond  the  Ordinance  of 
Baptism  and  the  promise  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  I  do  not  know  a 
thing  that  He  said  during  those  forty  days. 

He  gave  this  clear  commandment  regarding  Baptism  and 
the  making  of  disciples: 


206  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

All  authority  hath  He  given  unto  Me  in  heaven  and  on  earth.  Go  ye, 
therefore,  and  make  disciples. 

THE    COMMAND   IS   TO    MAKE    DISCIPLES. 

"What?  You  cannot  make  a  disciple,"  says  somebody. 
Yes,  I  can.  I  can  make  you  a  disciple. 

A  man  said  the  other  day:  "Nobody  can  make  me  any- 
thing." He  said,  "I  am  going  to  hear  Dr.  Dowie,  and  I  tell 
you  that  man  cannot  make  me  do  anything." 

Well,  he  came  here,  and  the  first  thing  I  did  was  to  make 
him  mad.  (Laughter.) 

I  made  him  so  mad  that  he  wanted  to  hit  me  on  the  nose 
because  I  called  him  a  stinkpot.  He  turned  to  his  wife  and 
said,  "Do  you  hear  that?" 

"Well,"  she  said,  "it  is  true."     (Laughter.) 

He  had  a  Masonic  badge  on,  and  I  went  for  the  Mah-hah- 
bones,  and  he  turned  to  the  young  lady  on  the  other  side  of 
him  and  said,  "Do  you  hear  that?" 

"Well,"  she  said,  "it  is  true."     (Laughter.) 

"Bless  me,"  he  said,  "I  want  to  get  out." 

She  said,  "You  better  not  go,  because  he  will  say,  'There  is 
one  of  them  going  out.  (Laughter.)  The  Devil  is  carrying 
off  his  wounded.' "  So  he  sat  still  a  little  while.  Then  he 
began  to  get  interested,  and  soon  he  began  to  forget  the  annoy- 
ance he  had  experienced. 

Presently  he  began  to  cry.  He  forgot  all  about  his  anger. 
He  remembered  an  evil  thing  he  had  done.  He  was  a  sinner. 
He  put  out  his  hand  to  his  wife.  He  put  his  handkerchief 
over  his  eyes  and  grasped  her  hand.  She  was  crying,  too. 
When  I  said,  "Stand  up,  you  sinners,  and  confess  your  sins," 
he  arose  right  up  and  said  the  words  which  I  use  in  the  prayer 
of  repentance  and  consecration  at  the  close  of  my  discourses. 

When  he  got  outside  he  said,  "  I  said  he  could  not  make 
me  do  anything.  Now  he  has  made  me  a  Christian.  I  can 
never  forget  this  afternoon." 

I  baptized  that  man  the  next  week,  and  he  is  here  today, 
thank  God.  (Amen.) 

God  can  make  you  anything,  can  he  not? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — He  can  even  save  a  Chicago  policeman.  (Ap- 
plause and  laughter.)  We  have  a  number  of  them,  members  of 
this  Church. 

Good  fellows,  these  policemen ! 

MANY    OF     THE     CHICAGO     POLICEMEN     ARE     GLORIOUS     FELLOWS. 

My  personal  attendant  is  an  ex-Chicago  policeman,  and  he 
was  the  nastiest,  dirtiest  kind  of  a  bum  that  you  could  find. 
He  was  a  saloonkeeper.  I  trust  him  implicitly,  and  have  done 
so  for  more  than  four  years.  My  coachman  is  an  ex-police- 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  20? 

man,  and  the  tenderest  kind  of  a  fellow.  God  Almighty  can 
save  police  officers. 

They  have  a  pretty  hard  row  to  hoe.  I  never  realized  it 
until  I  saw  what  a  mob  could  do  and  be  in  this  city.  I  prayed 
very  earnestly  that  night  for  the  police;  more  than  I  ever  did 
before.  That  was  the  night  when  they  defended  my  life  against 
thousands  of  riotous,  howling,  cursing  doctors  and  medical 
students. 

May  God  bless  the  policemen  and  save  them  all.     (Amen.) 

God  can  do  anything.  He  can  make  disciples  of  you,  can 
He  not? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — He  can  make  you  obey  Him,  can  He  not? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — A  man  came  into  this  place  the  other  day.  He 
said,  "  Doctor,  when  I  first  came  to  hear  you  I  came  to  have 
some  fun,  and  before  you  were  through  you  had  all  the  fun, 
and  I  did  not  have  any."  (Laughter.)  That  mocker  was 
made  a  disciple,  a  learner  at  Jesus'  feet. 

Jesus  said:  "Go  ye,  therefore,  and  make  disciples  of  all 
the  nations,  baptizing  them" — how  often? 

Voices— "Three  times." 

AN    ILLUSTRATION   OF   TRIUNE   IMMERSION. 

Dr.  Dowie — Here  is  a  handkerchief.  Suppose  there  is  a 
little  box  here  containing  three  divisions.  In  that  division 
there  is  black  dye,  in  that  there  is  blue,  and  in  that  there  is 
yellow.  If  you  were  to  tell  me  to  dip  this  handkerchief  "into 
the  black,  and  the  blue,  and  the  yellow,"  how  many  times  would 
I  have  to  dip  it? 

Voices— "Three  times." 

Dr.  Dowie — And  if  I  am  to  baptize  you  into  the  Name  of 
the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  how  many 
times  must  I  dip  you? 

Voices — "Three  times." 

Dr.  Dowie — That  is  sensible.    That  is  just  what  the  Greek  is. 

"Oh,  Doctor,  we  never  heard  of  that  Baptism,"  says  some 
one. 

That  is  just  your  ignorance,  and  the  ignorance  of  your 
Church.  Go  to  any  scholarly  man,  I  do  not  care  who  he  is, 
whether  he  is  a  Roman  priest,  or  a  Greek  priest,  or  an  Episco- 
palian minister,  or  a  scholarly  Protestant  of  any  Church,  and 
say  to  him,  "Sir,  I  desire  a  careful  answer  to  this  question: 
What  was  the  primitive  form  of  Believers'  Baptism  in  the  Chris- 
tian Church,  so  far  as  you  can  find  it  out  from  the  records?  I 
want  not  what  you  think,  but  what  is  in  the  records." 

If  he  tells  you  the  truth,  he  will  have  to  say  that  it  was 
triune  immersion. 


208  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

The  Encyclopedia  Brittanica  says  the  same  thing.  So 
does  Chambers'  Edinburgh  Encyclopedia.  Schaff  &  Herzog's 
Religious  Encyclopedia  gives  the  same  fact. 

Every  scholar  is  compelled  to  admit  that  the  primitive  form 
of  Baptism  was  Triune  Immersion. 

Tertullian,  a  Christian  writer  in  the  Second  Century,  says: 
"When  we  are  going  to  enter  the  water  .  .  .  Hereupon  we 
are  thrice  immersed.  .  .  .  And,  indeed,  it  is  not  once  only, 
but  three  times,  that  we  are  immersed  into  the  Three  Persons 
at  each  several  mention  of  Their  Names." 

As  one  traces  the  history  of  Baptism  he  will  not  find  any 
other  Baptism  in  the  first  seven  centuries  of  the  Christian 
Church,  except  one  solitary  case  in  the  Fourth  Century.  _Euno- 
mius,  who  was  counted  a  heretic  by  the  whole  Church  and  was 
wrong  upon  a  great  many  other  things,  taught  Baptism  by  one 
immersion. 

In  the  Romish  Church  itself  one  will  not  find  any  other  form 
of  Baptism  for  thirteen  centuries. 

If  one  goes  to  the  Greek  Church  today  he  will  find  that  the 
mode  of  Baptism  is  by  three  dippings:  into  the  Name  of  the 
Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Spirit. 

(Readers  who  desire  further  information  on  this  subject  of 
the  History  of  Christian  Baptism  will  find  it  in  two  articles,  by 
Rev.  E.  B.  Kennedy,  in  LEAVES  OF  HEALING,  Volume  5,  Num- 
ber 27,  pages  517-522.) 

THE    HISTORY    OF    BAPTISM    IS    IN    FAVOR    OF   TRIUNE   IMMERSION. 

There  is  no  other. 

As  for  Baby  Baptism,  there  is  no  such  thing  in  the  Bible. 

Only  those  who  repent  are  to  be  baptized. 

Can  a  baby  repent? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  you  ever  try  to  get  a  baby  to  repent?  I 
love  babies.  When  I  see  some  of  the  babies  in  Zion  Home,  I 
love  to  take  them  in  my  arms  and  play  with  them. 

There  is  a  little  baby  in  Zion  Home  now,  whom  I  some- 
times take.  When  I  play  with  that  little  one  she  makes  a 
descent  upon  the  little  hair  which  is  left  upon  my  head.  She 
grabs  it  with  both  her  hands  and  pulls.  I  say  to  her,  "  Now, 
baby,  you  repent,"  and  she  only  takes  another  grab.  If  I  say 
repent  again,  she  goes  for  my  beard.  I  cannot  get  her  to 
repent  at  all. 

Can  you  get  a  baby  to  repent? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — "  But,  Doctor,"  say  the  Lutherans  and  the 
Roman  Catholics,  "we  get  people  to  stand  up  and  repent  for 
the  babies." 

That  is  the  biggest  lie  of  all. 


ZION'S   HOLY    WAR.  209 

A  person  who  stands  up  and  says  that  he  renounces  the 
World,  the  Flesh  and  the  Devil,  and  that  he  will  bring  you  up  in 
the  nurture  and  admonition  of  the  Lord,  manifestly  tells  a  lie, 
for  he  has  not  renounced  the  World,  the  Flesh  and  the  Devil 
himself.  He  and  the  god-mother,  the  partner  in  this  folly, 
oftentimes  never  take  any  more  notice  of  you.  Is  that  not 
true? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — That  is  an  abominable  wickedness.  There  is 
no  such  thing  as  Baby  Baptism.  To  say  that  any  priest  or 
minister,  by  sprinkling  a  little  water  upon  the  baby's  nose, 
eyes,  mouth  or  anywhere  about  its  head,  can  change  that  baby's 
heart,  is  another  lie. 

WATER   UPON    A   BABY'S    HEAD    CANNOT    CHANGE    ITS    HEART. 

Do  you  not  know  of  a  great  many  people  who  have  been 
sprinkled  who  are  thieves?  Do  you  not  know  of  a  great  many 
babies  who  have  been  sprinkled  who  have  grown  up  to  tell  lies? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — I  believe  that  every  one  of  you  who  have  been 
sprinkled  has  told  lies.  (Laughter.)  I  will  test  it. 

Every  one  in  this  place  who  has  been  sprinkled,  put  up  your 
hands.  (Hundreds  of  hands  were  raised.) 

Now  every  one  of  you  who  has  been  sprinkled  who  never, 
never,  never,  no,  never,  told  a  lie  of  any  kind  in  your  life,  put 
up  your  hands.  (One  hand  was  raised.)  (Applause  and 
laughter.) 

There  is  one,  but  I  do  not  believe  her.  I  was  sprinkled, 
and  I  would  not  put  up  my  hand.  (Laughter.) 

When  I  was  a  little  boy  I  remember  a  lie.  I  did  not  tell  it, 
but  I  acted  it  to  my  mother.  I  hid  a  hat  that  I  had.  I  took 
it  and  put  it  away  down  in  the  back  yard  underneath  a  glazier's 
old  signboard,  and  sat  upon  it.  (Laughter.) 

The  next  morning  when  my  mother  asked  where  that  hat 
was,  I  said,  "Is  it  not  in  the  box?"  (Laughter.)  That  was  a 
lie,  and  I  could  not  put  up  my  hand. 

I  was  so  miserable!  I  never  forget  how  unhappy  I  was 
about  that  miserable,  wretched  hat.  How  I  did  hate  that  hat. 
I  hate  the  same  kind  of  hat  now.  (Laughter.)  I  do  not  care 
to  wear  them.  Sometimes  my  wife  will  have  me  wear  these 
miserable  things.  But  I  wear  them  under  protest. 

There  is  not  one  of  you  here  who  had  a  change  of  heart  in 
babyhood  by  sprinkling,  had  you? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — It  is  a  lie  to  say  it.  For  the  priest  or  minister 
to  say  that  you  were  regenerated  in  Baptism  is  a  lie. 

You  could  not  become  a  Christian  at  that  time.  Water 
could  not  make  you  a  Christian.  It  takes  the  Holy  Ghost  to 


210  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

make  a  man  repent  of  his  sins  and  to  put  away  sin,  and  to  trust 
in  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

They  who  have  repented  and  trusted  God  alone  can  be 
baptized. 

THE    SEAL    OF   A   TRUE    CHURCH    IS   A   TRUE    BAPTISM. 

"O,"  say  the  Baptists,  "we  have  it." 

Where  is  your  Baptism,  you  miserable  Baptists? 

You  are  as  dry  as  the  dust  of  dry  bones,  save  a  little  water, 
which  merely  makes  dust  mud.  Miserable!  The  most  miser- 
able people  anywhere,  I  think,  are  Baptists,  unless  it  may  be 
the  Methodists.  (Laughter.) 

Methodists  used  to  be  glorious  people,  and  so  did  the  Bap- 
tists, but  they  have  gone  far  away  from  God  as  organizations, 
although  there  are  many  excellent  Christians  among  them 
who  are  Christians  first,  and  denominationalists  afterward. 

They  have  no  right  to  complain  of  what  I  say,  because  they 
themselves  say  they  have  nothing  in  common  with  me. 

I  believe  that  is  true. 

I  do  not  find  that  they  have  anything  in  common  with  the 
preaching  of  Repentance,  Faith,  Obedience,  Baptism,  the  Lay- 
ing On  of  Hands,  and  Salvation  for  spirit,  soul  and  body. 

The  Christian  Catholic  Church  must  not  only  have  the 
Christian  Faith  for  Salvation,  Healing  and  Holiness,  but  it 
must  have  a  Christian  and  Scriptural  Baptism. 

There  is  one  God;  one  Faith;   one  Baptism. 

That  God  is  in  how  many  persons? 

Audience— "Three." 

Dr.  Dowie — Father,  Son  and  Holy  Ghost.  These  three 
are — ? 

Audience — "One." 

Dr.  Dowie — That  one  Faith  covers  three  things:  First 
Salvation,  then  Healing,  then  Holiness.  These  three  are — ? 

Audience— "One." 

Dr.  Dowie — That  Baptism  is  into  three  Names:  Into  the 
Name  of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Ghost. 
These  three  are — ? 

Voices—"  One." 

Dr.  Dowie — I  am  a  man,  and  you  are  a  man:  with  spirit, 
soul  and  body;  and  these  three  are — ? 

Audience — "One." 

Dr.  Dowie — We  have  a  triune  God,  a  triune  Faith,  a  triune 
Baptism,  and  a  triune  Man.  When  God  says  there  is  one  God, 
one  Faith,  one  Baptism  and  one  Man,  I  believe  Him.  But  that 
one  God  is  in  three  persons,  that  one  Faith  is  in  three  parts, 
that  one  Baptism  is  by  three  immersions,  and  that  one  Man  is 
in  three  essential  divisions.  The  triunity  runs  through 
it  alL 


ZSON'S  HOLY    WAR.  211 

"Oh,"  says  the  Baptist,  "when  you  are  baptized,  you  are 
baptized  into  His  death.  That  is  all  there  is  to  it."  But  that 
is  not  all  there  is  to  it. 

Are  ye  ignorant  that  all  we  who  were  baptized  into  Christ  Tesus  were 
baptized  into  His  death? 

Is  that  all? 
Voices—"  No." 
Dr.  Dowie — 

For  if  we  have  become  united  with  Him  by  the  likeness  of  His  death, 
we  shall  be  also  by  the  likeness  of  His  resurrection. 

That  is  the  second. 

So  we  also  might  walk  in  newness  of  life. 

There  are  three  things  in  a  True  Baptism  :  First, 
Death  to  sin;  second,  Life  in  God;  and,  third,  Power  for 
service. 

CALL. 

All  who  desire  to  follow  God  fully  and  have  death  to  sin 
and  life  in  God  and  power  to  serve  God,  stand.  Those  who  do 
not  desire  power  to  serve  God,  sit  still  and  we  will  know  that 
you  belong  to  the  Devil  and  are  ashamed  of  God.  (With  but 
few  exceptions  the  entire  audience  arose.) 

PRAYER   OF  CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I  am. 
Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me  power  to 
do  right,  no  matter  what  it  costs.  Give  me  thy  Holy  Spirit,  that  I  may  con- 
fess my  sins  and  make  restitution,  and  do  right  to  all  men;  that  I  may  do 
right  in  Thy  sight.  Give  me  power  to  trust  Thy  Son,  the  Lamb  of  God  that 
taketh  away  the  sin  of  the  world.  Take  away  my  sin.  Cleanse  my  spirit, 
my  soul,  my  body,  and  give  me  power  to  obey  Thee  in  all  things,  for 
Jesus'  sake.  Amen.  (All  repeat  the  prayer,  clause  by  clause,  after 
Dr.  Dowie.) 

Did  you  mean  that  prayer? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Then  live  it.  Obey  God.  You  should  do  it  at 
once. 

If  any  of  you  who  are  Christians  desire  to  be  baptized  now, 
I  will  baptize  you,  although  I  have  never  seen  you  before.  If 
you  know  you  have  confessed  your  sins  and  forsaken  them 
and  given  your  heart  to  God,  you  should  obey  God  and  be 
baptized. 

BAPTISM    OF   FORTY-EIGHT   BELIEVERS. 

The  audience  was  then  dismissed,  and  within  half  an  hour 
gathered  in  the  large  galleries  to  the  number  of  about  one 
thousand  five  hundred,  to  witness  the  Ordinance.  Forty-eight 
believers  then  followed  the  command  of  Christ  and  were  bap- 
tized by  triune  immersion,  the  General  Overseer  administering 


212  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

the  Ordinance.  ,   The  services  were  then  closed  by  the  fol- 
lowing 

BENEDICTION. 

.Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil.  And  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 
grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you, bless 
you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 


SERMON— ZION'S  WITNESS  AGAINST  THE  OPPRESSORS. 


ON  LORD'S  DAY  EVENING,  November  I2th,  at  South 
Side  Zion  Tabernacle,  the  General  Overseer  delivered 
the  first  of  his  addresses  on  the  special  witnessing,  in  the  Holy 
War,  against  the  Oppressors. 

It  required  courage  to  stand,  with  a  full  knowledge  of  the 
present  conditions  in  the  industrial  world,  and  boldly  rebuke 
the  trades-unions,  and  their  notorious  walking  "delegoats"  for 
their  oppression  of  the  workingmen  who  fee  them  and  fear 
them. 

The  murderous  passions  of  these  drink-inflamed  agitators 
had  been  excited  already  by  the  false  reports  concerning  Dr. 
Dowie  and  Zion  in  the  newspapers,  and  by  the  scenes  enacted 
by  other  riotous  enemies  of  Zion.  There  was  a  possibility  that 
this  special  attack  upon  their  vile  occupation  would  incite  them 
to  lead  others  on  to  deeds  of  violence. 

However,  the  General  Overseer's  voice  rang  out  fearlessly 
and  God  protected  him.  There  was  no  disturbance  worthy  of 
mention.  A  few  persons  went  noisly  out;  but  thousands 
remained. 

The  greater  part  of  the  audience  seemed  to  grasp  the  truth 
of  the  words  spoken  and  heartily  endorse  their  sound  common 
sense.  A.  w.  N. 

South  Side  Zion  Tabernacle,  Lord's  Day  Evening,  November  12,  1899. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing  Hymn  No.  116: 

There's  a  royal  banner  given  for  display 

To  the  soldiers  of  the  King ; 
As  an  ensign  fair  we  lift  it  up  today, 

While  as  ransomed  ones  we  sing. 

CHORUS — Marching  on!     Marching  on! 

For  Christ  count  ev'rything  but  loss; 
And  to  crown  Him  King,  toil  and  sing, 
'Neath  the  banner  of  the  cross. 

Dr.  Dowie  then  read  from  the  Inspired  Word  of  God  in  the 
Epistle  of  James,  fifth  chapter. 

War— 213 


214  ZION'S  HOLY    WAR. 

Prayer  was  then  offered  by   Dr.  Dowie,  after   which  the 
announcements  were  made. 

The  tithes  and  offerings  were  then  received. 


ZION'S  WITNESS   AGAINST  THE   OPPRESSORS. 


Dr.  Dowie  delivered  the  following  address: 
INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight,  be  profitable  unto  this  people,  and  unto  all  to  whom 
these  words  shall  come,  in  this  and  every  land,  in  this  and  all  the  coming 
time,  till  Jesus  come,  for  His  sake.  Amen. 

In  Zion's  Holy  War  Against  the  Hosts  of  Hell  in  Chicago, 
which  now  enters  upon  its  seventh  week,  I  have  made  for  my 
constant  text  the  words  which  I  have  read  to  you  fre- 
quently, in  the  third  chapter  of  the  Book  of  Malachi,  fifth 
verse : 

I  will  come  near  to  you  to  judgment;  and  I  will  be  a  swift  witness 
against  the  sorcerers,  and  against  the  adulterers,  and  against  false  swearers; 
and  against  those  that  oppress  the  hireling  in  his  wages,  the  widow,  and  the 
fatherless,  and  that  turn  aside  the  stranger  from  his  right,  and  fear  not  Me, 
saith  Jehovah  of  Hosts. 

Tonight  I  speak  to  thoughtful  men  and  women,  and  through 
LEAVES  OF  HEALING,  through  the  swift  pens  of  these  our  sten- 
ographers, to  all  the  world. 

The  word  which  I  speak  tonight,  I  speak  not  merely  to  you, 
but,  as  far  as  this  Voice  to  Zion  and  God's  People  in  Every 
Land  can  reach,  as  God's  Witness  against  those  that  oppress 
the  hireling  in  his  wages. 

Before  I  speak  concerning  the  oppressors,  let  me  lay  down 
some  fundamental  principles. 

I  desire  to  speak  to  thoughtful  people  who  can  weigh  well 
what  words  mean  and  translate  them  into  action. 

POVERTY   NOT   A    BLESSING. 

You  have  heard  the  statement  made,  doubtless,  that  among 
the  many  blessings  which  God  gives  to  His  children  is  the 
blessing  of  poverty,  and  that  piety,  deep  religious  sentiment 
and  powerful  religious  life  are  fostered  more  by  poverty  than 
they  ever  could  be  by  wealth,  and  that,  therefore,  God's  people 
must  always  be  poor  in  order  to  be  happy. 

That  is  wicked,  nonsensical  talk;  a  wicked  lie.  Those  who 
say  it  are  insufficiently  acquainted  with  God's  Word  and  God's 
purposes,  and  are  making  assertions  which  have  come  down  to 
them  by  heredity,  the  fables  of  greedy  priests  and  false 
shepherds. 

God's  Word  plainly  declares  that  prosperity,  wealth,  health, 
strength  and  vigor  of  every  kind  is  promised  to  those  who  will 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  21$ 

obey   (jod.     Our   Lord  Jesus  Christ  in   the  plainest  of   plain 
words  said: 

There  is  no  man  that  hath  left  house,  or  brethren,  or  sisters,  or  father, 
or  mother,  or  wife,  or  children,  or  lands,  for  My  sake,  and  the  Gospel's 
sake,  but  he  shall  receive  an  hundredfold  now  in  this  time,  houses,  and 
brethren,  and  sisters,  and  mothers,  and  children,,  and  lauds,  with  persecu- 
tions ;  and  in  the  world  to  come  eternal  life. 

The  apostle  declares  that  "godliness  is  profitable  unto  all' 
things,  having  promise  of  the  life  which  now  is,  and  of  that 
which  is  to  come."  Beyond  all  controversy,  the  sixtieth 
chapter  of  Isaiah,  setting  forth  the  glory  of  Zion  in  the  latter 
days,  declares  distinctly  that  God's  people  shall  not  only  be 
rich,  but  shall  be  powerful,  and  that  the  sons  of  the  stranger 
and  those  who  have  afflicted  them  shall  come  and  bow  down 
to  them  and  pour  the  wealth  of  all  the  earth  into  Zion. 

"  But,"  you  say,  "  Doctor,  that  never  was  fulfilled  in  the 
apostles.  They  were  a  poor,  beggarly  lot." 

Who  told  you  that?     That  is  another  lie. 

The  apostles  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  controlled  the  largest 
sums  of  money  which  ever  at  any  one  time  came  into  the 
treasury  of  God. 

Now  you  say,  "Wait  a  minute,  Doctor.  Were  not  Peter 
and  John  without  money  when,  shortly  after  Pentecost,  they 
came  up  to  the  Beautiful  Gate  of  the  Temple?" 

GREAT  WEALTH  OF  THE  APOSTOLIC  CHURCH. 

That  does  not  show  that  they  were  poor. 

It  is  only  a  rich  man  who  can  go  about  without  money.  A 
poor  man  has  to  carry  his  money  around  with  him.  A  rich 
man  can  carry  a  blank  check  book,  and  can  create  money 
wherever  he  chooses  to  write  a  check. 

The  apostles  were  wealthy  at  that  time. 

Jerusalem  at  that  time  was  a  city  of  great  magnificence. 
Real  estate  was  at  its  highest  value.  The  Romans  and  Greeks, 
strangers  from  all  parts,  and  wealthy  Jews  coveted  every  inch 
of  the  soil.  The  Romans  built  magnificent  houses,  the  remnants 
of  which,  deep  under  the  modern  city,  remain  to  this  day. 

Christ  told  His  disciples  that  Jerusalem  would  be  destroyed; 
He  told  them  to  prepare  for  it  by  selling  their  property.  They 
were  Jewish  Christians,  and  a  Jew  can  always  make  a  good 
bargain. 

It  was  the  time  of  good  prices. 

I  have  calculated  a  little.  There  were  three  thousand  saved 
at  Pentecost.  There  were  five  thousand  more  saved  on  the  day 
when  the  man,  lame  from  his  birth,  was  healed  at  the  Beauti- 
ful Gate  of  the  Temple. 

That  makes  eight  thousand.  It  is  also  said  that  there  were 
multitudes  saved.  Before  that  there  were  multitudes  followed 


2l6  ZION' S.  HOLY    WAR. 

Jesus,  and  I  calculate  that  there  were  fifty  thousand  property 
owners  in  and  around  Jerusalem  at  that  time,  who  were  Jewish 
Christians.  "*• 

My  opinion  is  that  the  average  value  of  each  member's 
property  was  nearly  five  thousand  dollars  in  modern  money. 
If  so,  their  combined  wealth  would  be  two  hundred  and  fifty 
million  dollars,  a  tremendous  sum. 

Suppose  there  were  only  ten  thousand  property  holders  of 
five  thousand  dollars  each,  in  modern  money,  that  would  be 
fifty  millions  of  dollars. 

Think  what  those  figures  mean! 

The  apostles  beyond  all  question  had  control  of  a  great  mis- 
sionary fund.  They  sent  out  the  Christians  who  had  been  with 
Christ  to  all  the  world  to  Witness  for  God  everywhere. 

The  work  of  extending  the  Gospel  can  never  be  done  by  a 
poor  Church. 

POVERTY    IS   A    CURSE. 

It  means  discouragement.  It  means  hunger  if  it  is  very 
great.  It  means  grinding  toil  unrequited,  discontent,  revolution 
and  hatred  even  in  good  times. 

Poverty  is  the  Penalty  of  Sin. 

For  ye  know  the  grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  that  thought  He  was 
rich,  yet  for  your  sakes  He  became  poor,  that  ye  through  His  poverty  might 
become  rich. 

The  apostle  meant  that  when  he  wrote  it.  Of  course  there 
were  days  of  trial,  just  as  there  have  been  with  us  in  this  city. 
There  were  weeks,  months,  years  of  conflict.  They  are  not 
over,  but  as  sure  as  God  lives,  Zion  will  be  rich,  powerful, 
strong,  and  will  be  able  to  give  a  good  account  before  the  judg- 
ment seat  of  God  of  all  the  devils  which  oppressed  her.  Zion 
will  win  every  battle,  because  Zion  in  the  latter  days  must  be 
rich,  must  possess  the  gates  of  her  enemies,  and  must,  in 
accordance  with  God's  Word,  be  powerful. 

I  am  no  pessimist.  I  do  not  believe  that  these  are  the 
worst  days  which  the  world  has  seen.  I  believe  they  are  the 
best  and  the  worst.  I  believe  that  evil  men  and  seducers  never 
were  worse;  that  good  men  and  pure  women  never  were  better. 

There  never  was  a  time  in  the  history  of  the  Church  when 
the  Church  was  more  intelligent  and  began  to  understand  God 
and  her  mission  better.  I  believe  that  the  education  of  the 
Church  will  be  very  rapid.  I  am  not  speaking  of  the  education 
of  a  mass  of  hypocrites  who  only  pretend  to  be  Christians.  I 
am  speaking  of  those  who  are  really  God's,  who  are  determined 
to  serve  God,  if  it  costs  them  their  lives.  While  I  must  speak 
plainly  on  this  subject,  I  will  speak  with  malice  toward  none, 
but  with  love  for  all,  even  those  who  have  sinned  most  deeply. 
I  have  no  other  desire  than  your  blessing  and  the  blessing  of 
the  world  at  large  in  these  words,  which  I  believe  will  express 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  2i; 

God's  Witnessing  against  those  that  oppress  the  hireling  in  his 
wages. 

THE    RICH    ARE,    FIRST    OF    ALL,    THE    GREAT    OPPRESSORS. 

We  are  living  in  a  day  when,  although  men  talk  about  de- 
mocracy, neither  of  the  two  great  parties  in  this  country,  nor 
any  of  the  parties  throughout  the  Anglo-Saxon  race  in  the 
various  divisions  of  that  people,  are  really  democratic.  It  would 
be  a  pity  if  they  were.  The  rule  of  the  people  is  the  worst  pos- 
sible rule. 

I  will  ask  you  this  question  first:  Are  the  majority  of  the 
people  of  Chicago  good  or  bad? 

Voices—"  Bad." 

Dr.  Dowie — Are  they  led  by  the  filthy  press  by  the  very 
nose,  or  are  they  independent  thinkers? 

Voices— "They  are  led  by  the  press." 

Dr.  Dowie — You  know  that  the  majority  in  this  city  are  not 
fit  to  rule.  If  the  majority  did  rule,  that  would  be  the  rule  of 
the  worst.  The  principle  of  ruling  the  people,  by  the  people 
and  for  the  people,  is  a  bad  principle. 

Suppose  that  Elder  Cabeen  stands  here  and  says,  "I  believe 
in  the  rule  of  James  Wallace  Cabeen,  by  James  Wallace  Cabeen 
and  for  James  Wallace  Cabeen,"  would  he  not  be  selfish? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Is  selfishness  a  good  thing? 

Voices— "No." 

Dr.  Dowie — The  rule  of  the  people,  by  God  and  for  God,  is 
Zion's  principle.  We  are  Theocrats. 

The  rich  oppress  the  poor.     Why?     Because 

THE    RICH    ARE    UNGODLY. 

"Oh,"  you  say,  "Mr.  Rockefeller  is  a  Baptist." 

Yes,  I  know  he  is  a  Baptist.  I  wish  he  were  a  Christian. 
(Laughter.)  A  Christian  would  take  no  part  in  the  wholesale 
robbery  of  the  Standard  Oil  Company  which  oppresses  the 
Pennsylvania  oil-producer,  buys  up  railways,  controls  steamship 
lines,  stifles  legislatures,  and  is  an  unmitigated  curse. 

No  man  ever  yet,  individually,  honestly  earned  fifty  million 
dollars,  or  ten  million.  He  might  get  it  as  a  gift,  or  he  might 
steal  it,  but  he  never  honestly  earned  it. 

John  D.  Rockfeller  could  only  get  fifty  million  by  steal- 
ing it;  stealing  it,  perhaps,  by  forms  of  law;  stealing  it  in 
defiance  of  law.  The  laws  of  this  country  are  against  the 
trusts,  but  the  trusts  continue  to  flourish,  no  matter  what  the 
law  is. 

I  hold  that  the  laws,  which  are  not  executed  honestly,  prove 
the  weakness  of  the  Constitution  and  of  its  three  great  branches : 
Legislative,  Judicial  and  Executive. 


2l8  ZION'S   HOLY    WAX. 

Legislatures  have  failed  to  provide  good  laws,  or  dishonest 
judges  or  rulers  have  failed  to  execute  them.  In  either  case 
Democracy  has  failed. 

The  rich  largely  control  all  the  political  parties.  If  you  do 
not  know  that,  you  have  only  to  go  down  to  Washington  to 
see  it.  You  have  only  to  hear  the  candid  leaders  of  party  on 
both  sides  telling  you  what  they  pay  for  their  votes. 

'The  votes  of  multitudes  of  people  can  be  bought  and  sold 
like  hogs  in  the  stockyards. 

AN  ILLUSTRATION  OF  HOW  VOTES  ARE  BOUGHT. 

A  few  years  ago,  when  Mr.  Harrison  was  defeated,  I  was 
living  at  Evanston.  I  met  a  gentleman  who  asked  me  not  to 
mention  his  name;  a  wealthy  merchant,  who  was  returning 
home  at  midday  on  election  day. 

I  had  heard  him  talking  in  the  morning  about  his  going  to 
spend  the  day  in  fighting  for  the  Republican  party. 

I  said,  "How  is  this?     Simply  going  home  for  dinner?" 

uNo,"  he  said,  "I  have  given  it  up." 

"What  do  you  mean?" 

He  said,  "I  do  not  want  you  to  give  my  name,  but  I  will 
tell  you  the  story.  My  partner  said  to  me,  'Jones  (we  will  call 
him  that),  I  want  you  to  help  me  round  up  so  many  hundred 
votes  in  such  a  precinct,  and  so  many  hundred  more  in  such  a 
precinct,  which  we  have  arranged  for.' 

"I  asked  him,  'What  do  you  mean  by  "arranged  for?"' 
He  said,  'Well,  we  bought  them. '  '  What  did  you  pay  for 
them?'  He  told  me  so  many  dollars  a  head.  I  found  that 
they  were  poor,  ignorant  foreigners,  who  did  not  know  a  word 
of  the  English  tongue,  who  had  been  'arranged  for'  by  their 
fellow-countymen,  who  did  not  know  the  American  tongue. 
They  were  bought  and  sold  like  sheep  in  the  shambles." 

He  said,  "I  was  so  disgusted  that  I  turned  to  my  partner 
and  said,  '  Do  you  think  I  have  lost  every  atom  of  Christianity, 
and  that  I  am  going  to  to  take  part  in  anything  like  that?  I 
am  going  home,  and  I  hope  Harrison  will  be  defeated.'"  And 
he  was. 

There  is  no  doubt  that  unscrupulous  rich  men  are  the  curse 
of  politics.  They  buy  the  votes  which  are  for  sale. 

Every  man  who  sells  his  vote  ought  to  be  disfranchised,  but 
you  cannot  do  it  as  things  are  now,  and  Election  Commis- 
sioners labor  hard  and  bring  forth  nothing,  for  the  most  part. 

It  is  cleverly  done,  and  you  cannot  prove  it. 

The  rich  are  the  curse  of  the  poor,  for  they  in  some  manner, 
whether  by  direct  bribes  or  otherwise,  seem  to  paralyze  the 
municipal,  the  state  and  the  national  governments.  Executive 
officers,  both  legal  and  administrative,  have  eyes  and  do  not 
see,  and  have  ears  and  do  not  hear.  They  do  not  take  any 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  2ig 

notice  of  the  frauds  which  are  going  on  under  their  very  eyes. 

I  will  not  develop  that  thought  further,  because  it  is  self- 
evident. 

The  next  topic  concerns  you  most.  You  have  the  power  to 
remedy  the  evils. 

OPPRESSION    BY   LABOR   UNIONS. 

The  greatest  oppression  which  the  toilers  suffer  from  is  the 
oppression  by  his  fellow-toiler,  especially  in  labor  unions. 

I  am  going  to  give  you  facts. 

The  oppression  of  the  poor  by  the  poor  is  the  great  curse 
of  our  time. 

I  will  take  a  bit  of  local  history  of  this  last  week  and  develop 
it  a  little. 

There  is  a  lockout  in  piano  factories  just  now. 

There  are  four  thousand  piano-makers  in  Chicago,  most  of 
then  very  intelligent  workmen,  because  the  making  of  pianos 
and  organs  requires  skilled  hands  and  clever  ears. 

There  are  four  thousand  workmen  locked  out.  Why  did 
the  masters  lock  them  out?  Because  they  were  threatened 
with  a  strike.  They  were  told  if  they  did  not  come  to  the 
terms  of  the  union,  the  union  would  strike  and  call  out  all  the 
men. 

What  is  this  precious  union? 

In  the  first  place,  the  ostensible  president  of  it  is  a  cigar- 
maker.  He  is  not  a  piano-maker.  The  probabilities  are  that 
he  is  not  the  president.  It  is  the  policy  of  these  unions  to 
conceal  the  real  executive  of  the  union,  and  the  probability  is 
that  he  is  the  business  agent.  But  he  knows  no  more  about 
organs  than  the  most  ignorant. 

His  trade  is  that  of  a  cigar-maker,  a  stinkpot  manufacturer. 

If  there  is  anything  that  is  stinking,  surely  it  is  tobacco, 
and  .those  who  chew  and  those  who  smoke.  Those  who  churn 
tobacco  in  their  mouths  and  spew  it  out  on  every  side;  what 
are  they  but  spewing  buzzards?  Dirty  stinkpots!  (Laughter.) 
Every  women  in  this  audience  will  say,  Amen.  (Amens  from 
the  women.) 

You  stinkpots  may  be  Christians,  but  you  smell  like  devils. 
You  cannot  wonder  that  the  boys  want  cigarettes  when  their 
fathers  smoke  cigars. 

Now  this  stinkpot  manufacturer  is  the  president  of  the 
piano-makers'  union. 

TRADES-UNION     DOMINATION     AN     EXAMPLE     OF     MINORITY    RULE. 

How  many  does  the  union  consist  of?  Nominally  fifteen 
hundred;  but  really  much  fewer:  for  hundreds  of  the  members 
were  in  arrears  with  their  assessments  and  could  not  vote. 
How  many  are  in  the  trade?  Four  thousand. 


220  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

About  one  thousand  are  determined  to  rule  three  thousand, 
and  threaten  the  three  thousand  with  physical  violence  if  they 
dare  to  disobey  the  one  thousand. 

The  minority  are  ruling  the  majority  and  oppressing  their 
fellow-workmen  who  want  to  work  at  very  good  wages,  the 
best  ever  offered  to  them.  The  manufacturers  have  willingly 
given  increased  wages,  and  are  willing  to  increase  still  more, 
should  trade  and  prices  permit. 

What  is  this  strike  going  to  do?  The  winter  is  coming  on. 
Do  you  know  what  a  strike  means  to  a  poor  man?  You  ought 
to  know.  The  majority  of  men  drink,  smoke,  go  to  theatres, 
belong  to  Secret  Societies,  ride  goats  (laughter),  and  do  many 
other  stupid  things. 

They  spend  usually  four  or  five  dollars  out  of  every  ten  in  a 
wasteful  and  extravagant  manner.  Then  when  a  strike  takes 
place  they  have  nothing  to  fall  back  on,  except  the  strike 
fund. 

I  will  point  out  to  you  what  that  means.  I  hold  in  my  hand 
the  Statesman's  Year  Book  for  this  year,  1899. 

There  is  no  compilation  in  the  world  so  reliable  as  this  book 
when  it  gets  down  to  statistics. 

This  year  there  is  prefaced  to  it  a  series  of  statistics  of  the 
United  States  of  no  less  than  two  hundred  and  eighty-two 
pages,  compiled  and  edited  by  Carroll  D.Wright,  LL.  D.,  who 
is  the  United  States  Commissioner  of  Labor  and  President  of 
the  American  Statistical  Association. 

He  is  a  conservative,  faithful  statistician,  and  when  he 
gives  figures,  they  are  always  under  the  mark  rather  than 
over. 

I  hold  in  my  hand  (page  211)  a  table  which  shows  the  loss 
occasioned  by  strikes  and  lockouts  for  thirteen  years. 

GREAT  FINANCIAL    LOSS    OCCASIONED    BY    STRIKES   AND   LOCKOUTS. 

There  were  during  these  thirteen  years,  from  1881  to  1894, 
strikes  which  caused  a  loss  of  wages  to  employees  of  one  hun- 
dred and  sixty-three  million  dollars.  The  labor  unions  paid  out 
in  assistance  to  these  employees  nearly  eleven  million  dollars. 
The  loss  of  the  employers  was  over  eighty-two  millions,  so 
that  the  loss  of  these  strikes  in  these  thirteen,  or,  more  accu- 
rately, twelve  and  one-half  years,  was  two  hundred  and  fifty- 
seven  million  dollars. 

The  lockouts,  which  usually  were  caused  by  threatened 
strikes,  involved  a  loss  to  master  and  man  of  forty-one  million 
dollars,  so  that  in  thirteen  years  nearly  three  hundred  millions 
of  dollars  were  lost.  This  loss  fell  mostly  upon  the  workmen, 
for  they  lost  more  than  two  hundred  million  dollars  in  the 
aggregate  by  lockouts  and  strikes.  The  remainder  was  lost  by 
the  employers. 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  221 

In  the  year  1894  in  six  months  there  was  a  loss  of  forty- 
five  millions  of  dollars,  principally  in  Chicago. 

TERRORS    OF   THE    CHICAGO    STRIKE    OF    1894. 

I  saw  that  strike.  Let  me  remind  you  of  that  awful  time.  Let 
me  remind  you  of  the  murderous,  anarchistic  mobs  which  com- 
pelled President  Cleveland  to  direct  Major-General  Miles  to 
gather  together  almost  the  entire  force  of  the  United  States 
troops  to  garrison  Chicago,  and  to  put  down  the  riots  with  a 
strong  hand. 

We  saw  trades-union  men  practically  terrorize  this  city, 
who,  from  personal  hatred,  were  determined  to  rule  or  ruin. 

Hundreds  of  thousands  of  workmen  were  compelled  to  be 
idle. 

Having  more  than  one  hundred  and  fifty  persons  dependent 
upon  my  care,  I  said  to  my  men  who  bought  meat  in  the  mar- 
ket, "  How  is  it  that  you  cannot  do  better?" 

They  said,  "  We  can  do  almost  nothing.  If  we  do  not  put  on 
a  white  ribbon  and  appear  to  belong  to  these  fellows,  we  cannot 
even  enter  the  stockyards  district." 

Men  were  cowed  and  afraid  to  speak  and  afraid  to  declare 
their  true  sentiments,  because  the  riotous  mob  had  possession  of 
the  city. 

What  was  the  result  of  that  strike? 

The  working  classes  lost  tens  of  millions  of  dollars.  But 
that  would  not  cover  it. 

The  rich  suffered  very  little;  the  poor  terrifically.  The 
laboring  men,  skilled  men,  splendid  toilers  whose  labor  was 
needed  and  would  be  paid  for,  could  not  work.  They  lay  on  the 
corridors  of  the  City  Hall  trying  to  get  some  warmth  in  that 
terrible  winter. 

Their  wives  were  hungry.  Their  children  were  insufficiently 
clothed,  and  in  many  cases  were  almost  naked. 

I  knew  of  large  numbers  of  families  where  the  mother  had  to 
wash  the  little  children's  frocks  and  underwear  while  they  were 
asleep  in  bed. 

There  was  no  change  for  them.  They  could  not  go  to 
school.  They  had  no  boots.  They  had  not  suitable  clothes.  1 

They  cried  because  they  had  not  enough  to  eat.  « 

Many  of  them  became  little  criminals;  petty  thieves.  Many 
of  them  of  older  years  went  into  immorality,  "For  Satan  finds 
some  mischief  still  for  idle  hands  to  do." 

The  men  became  profligate,  drunken  gamblers,  broken- 
hearted and  impoverished  every  way.  It  is  said  that  many  of 
them  died  of  starvation.  Many  of  them  incurred  diseases 
through  their  poverty,  from  which  they  have  not  yet  recovered. 

That  strike  was  the  ruin  of  hundreds  of  thousands,  directly 
and  indirectly. 


222  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

Many  who  live  will  never  recover.  The  suffering  of  the 
poor  wives  and  children  is  beyond  telling.  In  the  lower  poorer 
classes  there  were  many  women  who  went  out  and  sold  their 
bodies  that  they  might  feed  their  children.  Although  hungry 
themselves,  they  could  not  bear  to  see  their  children  die,  and 
they  became  shameless  wanderers  on  the  streets,  or  frequented 
haunts  of  vice  and  drunkenness. 

THE    LOSS    IN    THE    STRIKE     OF     1894     CANNOT     BE   ESTIMATED    IN 
DOLLARS   AND    CENTS. 

The  moral,  physical,  and  actual  money  loss  to  this  city 
could  not  be  represented  by  money  at  all. 

Four  hundred  million  dollars  would  not  cover  it,  in  my 
opinion.  I  have  a  right  to  speak,  because  I  have  considered 
the  whole  subject  very,  very  carefully.  I  was  here  through 
it  all,  and  my  people  are  in  touch  with  every  part  of  this 
community. 

I,  as  God's  minister,  say  that  such  a  strike  had  not  the  bless- 
ing of  God,  or  of  good,  common  sense  men  upon  it. 

George  Pullman  may  have  been  a  hard  master. 

I  knew  him.  I  was  one  of  his  many  tenants  for  a  short 
time  in  the  Pullman  Office  Building.  He  was  kind  enough  to 
express  personally  to  me  a  great  disinclination  for  me  to  surren- 
der my  lease  when  I  found  another  tenant  for  my  rooms  and 
moved  to  another  location.  But  I  never  received  a  dollar  from 
him  in  my  life. 

His  actions  were  made  the  pretense  for  stopping,  or  seri- 
ously clogging,  all  the  wheels  of  the  city's  business. 

He  made  his  money  as  a  workman  first.  He  said  to  me  as 
he  said  to  others,  "I  never  was  so  happy  as  when  I  was  a 
workingman,  when  I  could  make  a  few  dollars  a  week,  and  I 
went  home  tired  and  could  sleep  quietly.  My  riches  do  not 
make  me  happy." 

He  carried  around  with  him  a  broken  heart.  He  died  of  a 
broken  heart,  caused  by  the  wickedness  of  those  whom  he 
loved,  and  his  inability  to  trust  them. 

It  grieved  him  that  he  was  so  much  misunderstood  by  the 
workingmen  whose  prosperity  he  said  he  really  desired. 

George  Pullman  was  the  president  of  a  company  of  stock- 
holders, many  of  whom  were  widows  and  orphans.  He  was 
the  dispenser  of  a  large  trust  fund  in  that  company,  and  it  was 
his  duty  to  see  that  they  got  the  best  return  for  their  money 
that  he  could  make; 

He  was  willing  to  give  money,  but  when  it  came  to  business, 
he  must  act  on  business  principles. 

If  you  do  not  act  on  business  principles,  you  will  go  to  the 
wall. 


ZION'S  HOLY    WAR.  223 

Business  principles  are  of  God,  righteousness  and  justice. 
Generosity  with  what  belongs  to  yourself  is  good,  but 

GENEROSITY    WITH     THAT     WHICH     BELONGS     TO    ANOTHER     IS    A 

CRIME. 

I  speak  for  the  dead.  That  man  gave,  and  the  proof  of  it 
is  his  will,  for  he  has  provided  for  the  working  classes  the  best 
kind  of  polytechnic  ancj  manual  training  school,  with  an  im- 
mense endowment.  This  school  will  help  tens  of  thousands  of 
working  class  boys  to  learn  how  to  use  their  fingers  and 
to  be  splendid  mechanics.  He  never  lost  his  love  for  the 
toiler. 

He  was  not  the  man  in  whose  position  I  should  like  to  be,  and 
Christ  did  not  rule  his  life  in  all  things.  But  so  much  must  be 
said,  that  he  acted,  probably,  according  to  his  light,  and  more 
generously  than  tens  of  thousands  of  his  critics  would  have 
done  in  his  place. 

He  may  have  been  a  hard  master,  but  was  that  a  reason  for 
well-nigh  starving  the  whole  community,  and  making  it  a  ren- 
dezvous for  revolution  and  anarchy? 

The  Anarchists  in  the  labor  unions  who  made  his  refusal  to 
arbitrate  the  pretense  for  such  terrible  actions  are  eager  to 
repeat  the  scenes  of  1894. 

If  the  crimes  which  have  been  committed  in  this  city  this 
last  week  are  not  denounced  from  pulpits  today,  then  the  min- 
isters are  recreant  of  their  duty. 

A   STORY   OF  THE   DAY. 

Here  is  the  story  of  one.  A  man  named  Neistrom,  a  fore- 
man among  the  roofers,  did  not  agree  with  his  fellow-work- 
men. He  went  to  work.  When  he  left  his  work  and  got  into 
a  car  to  go  home  these  men  followed  him.  Then  what  did 
they  do? 

Here  is  the  story: 

Neistrom  continued  to  work  at  the  Russell-Lane  factory  in  spite  of  the 
warning  served  on  him.  When  he  left  the  factory  on  Wednesday  night  he 
took  a  North  Avenue  car  for  his  home.  A  number  of  strangers  got  on  the 
same  car  and  rode  with  him  to  California  Avenue.  As  he  alighted  from 
the  car  one  of  the  men  struck  him.  He  turned  to  defend  himself,  but  was 
knocked  down  and  beaten  and  kicked  until  he  was  insensible.  Neistrom's 
face  and  head  were  cut  in  a  number  of  places;  and,  if  he  lives,  he  will  bear 
these  scars  as  long  as  he  lives. 

These  are  the  murderers  who  are  ruling  the  labor  unions. 
If  you  support  these  unions — now  I  am  speaking  to  Zion,  I  am 
talking  to  those  whom,  as  General  Overseer  of  the  Christian 
Catholic  Church,  it  is  my  duty  to  direct — if  you  become  mem- 
bers of  such  unions,  you  are  partakers  of  other  men's  sins. 
You  are  as  responsible  for  the  brutal  beating  and  perhaps 


224  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

murder  of  this  man  as  if  you  had  done  it  with   your   own 
hands. 

You  may  say,  "What  are  we  to  do?" 

I  will  tell  you. 

NON-UNION     MEN     ARE    IN     THE     MAJORITY,      LET    THE    MAJORITY 
RULE   WHEN    IT    IS    RIGHT. 

Certainly  the  non-union  men  have  a  right  to  the  protection 
of  the  law  which  says  that  a  man  has  a  right  to  work  where  he 
will  and  for  whatever  wages  he  will.  He  is  not  responsible  to 
his  fellow-workman.  He  is  responsible  only  to  his  conscience 
and  to  his  God. 

If  another  man  is  willing  to  run  the  risks  of  his  wife  and 
family  being  ill-clad  and  half-starved  and  dying  this  winter, 
you  have  no  right  to  run  that  risk. 

Labor  for  what  you  can.  Idleness  is  a  crime.  "If  any  will 
not  work,  neither  let  him  eat." 

But  it  is  no  use  denouncing  things,  unless  you  can  provide 
a  remedy. 

THE     CHRISTIAN     CATHOLIC    CHURCH     IN     ZION     IS     A     PRACTICAL 

INSTITUTION. 

All  the  way  through  I  have  kept  steadily  in  view  the  pros- 
perity of  God's  people  committed  to  my  care.  I  have  had  the 
great  joy  of  seeing  this  people,  thousands  of  whom  were  sick 
and  sorrowful  and  sad,  almost  hungry  and  cold,  made  well, 
happy  and  comfortable.  Some  of  them  came  to  Zion  Taber- 
nacle, helped  by  others.  They  could  not  even  pay  their  own 
car  fare.  I  look  upon  hundreds  of  you  here  tonight  whom  I 
know  to  have  been  poor,  sick  and  sorrowing,  and  dying.  God 
saved  you,  God  healed  you,  and  God  has  prospered  you. 

I  have  been  keeping  steadily  before  me  the  thought  that 
God  requires  us  to  establish  a  number  of  Zion  Cities. 

The  first  of  these  must  be  built  near  Chicago. 

But  it  will  not  be  the  east:  for  God  said  long  ago,  "  My 
Cities  through  Prosperity  shall  yet  be  spread  abroad;  and  the 
Lord  shall  yet  comfort  Zion." 

We  have  prayed,  and  planned,  and  toiled  for  a  Zion 
City  for  years;  and  God  will  give  us  very  soon  our  heart's 
desire. 

I  feel  the  need  for  the  education  of  the  youth  from  the 
beginning,  and  of  the  guarding  of  them  from  the  evils  now 
abounding  in  cities  where  God  is  left  out  of  everything  for 
the  most  part.  I  have  been  setting  my  mind  and  those  of  my 
select  officers  for  years  towards  the  selection  of  land,  and  the 
laying  out  of  a  city.  There  many  will  come  to  us,  with  their 
children,  from  all  the  world.  There  will  not  be  a  salooon  nor 
one  tobacconist's  shop,  nor  one  drug  store,  nor  one  pig-seller, 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  22$ 

nor  one  known  harlot,  God  helping  us,  permitted,  knowingly, 
in  that  city. 

Either  by  the  deed  which  sells  the  land,  or  by  making  a 
nine  hundred  and  ninety-nine  year  lease  of  it,  God  can  control 
Zion  City  forever.  We  will  make  it  impossible  to  sell  there 
the  damning  liquor,  the  accursed  tobacco,  the  filthy  drug 
poisons  which  make  morphino-maniacs,  and  the  abominable, 
filthy  swine's  flesh  which  creates  disease. 

There  the  filthy  theatre,  and  she  whose  house  is  the  gate  of 
hell,  shall  have  no  place. 

There  the  children  shall  be  trained  in  schools  and  colleges 
where  God  is  recognized  in  all,  and  which  will  give  the  best 
education  possible  in  this  country. 

There  we  shall  establish  manufactories,  where  a  large  num- 
ber, if  not  all,  of  our  people  who  dwell  in  Zion  City  can  work. 
There  they  can  create  a  capital,  by  saving  a  proper  proportion 
of  the  rewards  of  their  labor,  which  will  make  these  great  fac- 
tories their  own. 

All  of  this  is  being  provided  for.  I  have  again  and  again 
refused  those  who  were  not  Christians,  who  desired  to  put  fac- 
tories upon  that  land.  I  have  said,  "You  can  get  land.  You 
can  have  a  factory,  a  boot  factory,  a  lace  factory,  clothing  fac- 
tory, anything  you  like  which  is  good;  but  you  must  agree  to 
be  content  with  a  certain  percentage  of  profit.  Your  books 
must  be  open  to  the  Auditor  of  Zion,  and  Zion  must  be  a  share- 
holder in  the  concern. 

"You  must  agree  that  after  a  fair  minimum  profit  has  been 
made  and  the  salaries  paid,  and  all  allowances  made  for  bad 
and  doubtful  debts,  wear  and  tear  of  machinery,  the  net  profit 
left  over,  be  it  a  thousand  or  be  it  ten  thousand  dollars,  shall 
be  divided  into  two  portions.  One  portion  shall  be  one-tenth, 
and  shall  be  given  to  Zion;  the  other  nine-tenths  shall  be 
divided  among  your  employees, /r<?  rota  to  the  amount  of  their 
individual  earnings." 

The  workmen  can  do  with  their  money  as  they  will;  but  I 
would  prefer  them  to  put  it  into  stock  in  the  company  by  which 
they  are  employed,  increasing  its  power  to  do  business,  and  thus 
gradually  enabling  Zion  people  to  control  the  whole,  and  con- 
tinue it  on  a  wholly  Zion  Cooperative  Principle. 

I    DESIRE   TO   SEE   GOD'S   PEOPLE   COOPERATE. 

I  believe  that  Zion  can  successfully  cooperate.  I  do  not 
believe  that  the  world  can.  I  do  not  believe  that  people  who 
smoke  and  drink  and  dance  and  fool  and  lie  and  sin  can  coop- 
erate with  any  large  degree  of  permanent  success. 

I  do  not  believe  that  people  who  love  God,  who  are  honest, 
who  are  healthy,  who  are  happy,  and  who  are  doing  the  best 
they  know,  who  love  each  other  and  who  love  their  God,  can 


226  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

fail  to  be  thrifty  investors  and  cooperate.  They  can  establish 
cities  which  shall  be  a  blessing  to  all  the  cities  outside  of  which 
they  dwell. 

Zion  will  be  able,  by  and  by,  to  buy  a  mine's  entire  output 
of  coal.  Then  instead  of  the  poor  man  having  to  pay  seven  or 
eight,  or  even  ten  dollars  per  ton,  when  the  weather  is  coldest, 
he  can  buy  it  for  less  than  half  that  money,  and  Zion  will  make 
a  profit  still.  We  shall  be  able  to  supply  our  people  with  the 
great  necessities  of  life  at  cheaper  rates,  and  enable  them,  by 
a  larger  tithing,  to  give  more  money  to  extend  the  Kingdom 
of  God. 

Zion  will  promote  the  prosperity  of  the  family  and 
build  houses  which  they  themselves,  and  not  another,  can 
inhabit. 

There  are  $1,300,000,000  spent  in  alcohol  and  $700,000,000 
in  tobacco  in  this  country  every  year.  Fifteen  hundred  million 
of  that  combined  sum  is  spent  by  the  working  classes.  If  that 
were  capitalized,  in  ten  years,  without  any  interest,  there 
would  be  $15,000,000,000  of  capital  in  the  working  classes' 
hands. 

They  could  compel  rich  men  to  quit  oppressing  them  by  the 
ill-gotten  power  of  their  riches,  because  they  would  have  that 
power  themselves. 

We  propose  to  get  that  Power  in  Zion  by  serving  God. 

I  hate  oppression. 

All  who  hate  oppression,  and  desire  to  serve  God,  stand 
up  and  tell  Him  so.  (With  few  exceptions,  the  entire  audi- 
ence arose.) 

PRAYER   OF   CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I  am. 
Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body,  and  make  me  to  follow 
Thee.  Give  me  power  to  obey  Thee;  to  repent;  to  restore;  to  do  right  to 
all  men,  in  Thy  sight.  Bless  the  deluded  multitudes;  the  wicked  who  are 
rich,  and  the  wicked  who  are  poor.  May  they  be  saved  from  their  delu- 
sion and  their  poverty  and  their  misery.  Oh  God,  help  me  to  do  my  part. 
May  I  give  Thee  my  whole  heart,  live,  love  and  serve  Thee,  for  Jesus'  sake, 
(All  repeat  the  prayer,  clause  by  clause,  after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

Did  you  mean  it? 

Voices—"  Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Will  you  do  it? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Will  you  be  prepared  to  make  the  Sacrifices 
that  God  may  call  upon  you  to  make  to  establish  these  things 
which  are  good? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — God  help  you  to  do  so  when  the  time  to  cooper- 
ate in  Zion  shall  have  fully  come. 

It  may  be  much  nearer  than  you  think. 


ZfON'S   HOLY    WAR.  22J 

The  meeting  was  then  closed  with  the  Doxology  and  the 
following 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil.  And  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctity  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 
grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you, bless 
you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


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ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 


ZION'S    HOLY    WAR. 


PRELUDE-CONCERNING    ILLNESS     OF  DWIGHT.  L.    MOODY. 

SERMON— ZION'S   WITNESS   AGAINST   THOSE    THAT 

OPPRESS  THE  WIDOW  AND  THE  FATHERLESS 

AND  THAT  TURN  ASIDE  THE  STRANGER 

FROM  HIS  RIGHT. 


ON  Lord's  Day  afternoon  and  evening,  November  19,  1899, 
the  General  Overseer  delivered  his  mighty  and  fearless 
witnessing  for  God  against  those  who  oppress  the  widow  and 
the  fatherless  and  that  turn  aside  the  stranger  from  his  right. 

Men,  hiding  under  the  cloaks  of  honored  professions  or 
behind  the  masks  of  assumed  piety,  have  committed  that  most 
cowardly  sin.  Their  positions  in  the  community  have  shielded 
them  from  the  rebukes  of  the  ministers  of  God  and  from  the 
scorn  of  all  good  people. 

God's  servant  in  Zion  boldly  tore  away  their  disguises  and 
showed  them,  under  the  glare  of  the  searchlight  of  truth,  the 
cringing,  hideous  monsters  they  really  are. 

Those  chiefly  guilty  of  this  sin  were  shown  to  be  the  mem- 
bers of  the  legal,  medical  and  ecclesiastical  professions. 

The  afternoon  address  was  delivered  at  Central  Zion  Tab- 
ernacle, before  a  deeply  interested  audience  of  nearly  three 
thousand  people;  the  evening  address  in  the  South  Side  Zion 
Tabernacle,  where  nearly  the  same  number  of  people  assembled, 
and  were  strongly  impressed  by  the  startling  truths  pro- 
claimed. A,  w.  N. 

AFTERNOON  SERVICE. 


Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  Lord's  Day  Afternoon,  November  19,  1899. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing  Hymn  No.  422: 

It  may  be  at  morn,  when  the  day  is  awaking, 

When  sunlight  through  darkness  and  shadow  is  breaking, 

That  Jesus  will  come  in  the  fulness  of  glory, 

To  receive  from  the  world  "  His  own." 

CHORUS — O  Lord  Jesus,  how  long,  how  long 
Ere  we  shout  the  glad  song? 
Christ  returneth;   Hallelujah!   Hallelujah! 
Amen.     Hallelujah!     Amen. 
War— 229 


230  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

Dr.  Dowie  then  read  the  third  chapter  of  Malachi;  also  the 
first  chapter  of  the  Epistle  of  James. 

Prayer  was  offered,  at  the  close  of  which  Dr.  Dowie 
said: 

CONCERNING  ILLNESS  OF  DWIGHT  L.  MOODY. 

I  share  with  every  true  Christian  in  this  land  the  feeling  of 
sorrow  which  we  all  must  have  had  when  we  read  of  Mr. 
Moody's  extremely  severe  illness  at  Kansas  City  and  his  com- 
plete break-down.  I  would  not  add  to  the  sorrow  which  any 
one  has  at  this  time  one  single  word  unnecessarily.  I  am  glad 
to  know  that  Mr.  Moody  still  lives.  But  I  would  like  to  send 
from  this  platform,  by  my  voice,  to  Mr.  Moody,  at  Northfield, 
another  and,  perhaps,  a  last  warning. 

I  would  like  to  say,  "  My  Brother  Moody,  remember  that  I 
warned  you  early  this  year  that  if  you  continued  your  attacks 
upon  Divine  Healing  and  upon  Zion,  God  would  set  you  aside. 
Remember,  Mr.  Moody,  that  only  a  month  or  so  ago  you 
came  to  this  city  and  unnecessarily  went  out  of  your  way  to 
attack  Zion,  to  attack  our  teaching,  and  boastfully  to  say  that 
not  only  was  disease  not  of  the  Devil,  but  that  doctors  were  of 
God.  You  said  that  if  you  got  sick,  you  would  ask  God  to 
bless  the  doctor,  and  would  expect  to  get  well. 

"You  know  that  you  got  sick,  and  you  got  the  doctor.  You 
did  not  get  well,  and  had  to  leave  in  the  midst  of  your  Mission 
here  in  Chicago. 

"  Now  the  next  Mission  to  which  you  go  you  get  sick  again, 
and  you  ask  the  doctor  to  help  you.  You  are  in  such  a  miser- 
able condition  after  he  has  been  helping  you  that  you  stagger 
out  of  your  hotel,  and  cannot  even  recognize  your  friends 
because  the  drugs  which  have  been  given  to  you  make  you 
stupid  and  insensible. 

"Mr.  Moody,  I  would  say,  "repent  and  turn  to  God!  Set 
aside  these  doctors  and  these  drugs,  or  the  Devil  will  kill  you, 
and  kill  you  quickly." 

I  know  something  of  the  disease  from  which  my  brother 
suffers,  for  I  am  well  acquainted  with  sickness.  I  have  seen 
sick  people  in  hundreds  of  thousands  since  1876.  In  twenty- 
three  years  I  must  have  seen  very  considerably  over  a  million 
of  sick  people. 

"Mr.  Moody,  I  know  from  what  you  are  suffering,  if  the 
statements  of  the  symptoms  in  the  papers  be  true.  You  can 
take  from  the  hands  of  these  doctors  these  infernal  drugs  that 
they  give  you,  but  when  the  Devil  and  the  doctors  have 
given  you  a  little  more  digitalis,  you  will  find  that  they 
have  given  you  a  dead  heart,  and  you  will  fall  dead  in  a 
twinkling. 

"Why  do  you  not  turn  to  God,  Dwight  L.  Moody,  and 
believe  that  Jesus  Christ  is  the  same  yesterday,  today  and  for- 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  231 

ever;  the  same  Saviour,  the  same  Healer,  the  same  Cleanser, 
the  same  Keeper? 

"  If  you  do,  oh  I  shall  be  so  glad  for  you  to  come  and  preach 
in  Central  Zion  Tabernacle.  (Applause.) 

"If  you  do  not,  you  will  not  preach  anywhere  long. 

GOD   WILL   NOT   LET   YOU   FIGHT    HIS   WORK   IN   ZION. 

"You  have  done  good  work,  but  God  marches  on. 

"  If  you  do  not  understand  Divine  Healing,  that  is  no  reason 
why  you  should  attack  it.  The  witnesses  to  Divine  Healing 
are  too  numerous  for  you  ever  to  invalidate  their  testi- 
mony." 

"Where  are  they?"  says  somebody. 

I  will  show  you  them  in  a  minute.  I  am  like  that  Scotch 
chieftain  who,  when  he  was  challenged  as  to  where  his  men 
were,  turned  around  and  said,  "Stand!"  and  an  army  of  men 
arose  from  their  hiding  places.  I  say  now,  let  every  one  who 
has  been  healed  through  faith  in  Jesus  Christ,  stand.  (At 
least  fifteen  hundred  persons  arose.) 

Were  you  healed  through  faith  in  Jesus,  brothers  and 
sisters? 

Witnesses— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  I  do  it? 

Witnesses — "  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  I  charge  you  any  money? 

Witnesses—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Do  you  know  of  anybody  I  did? 

Witnesses—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Is  God  your  Healer? 

Witnesses — "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Do   you  not    think  that  you  are  hypnotized? 

mghter.) 

Witnesses—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Do  you  work  every  day? 

Witnesses— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Do  you  get  wages? 

Witnesses— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Do  your  masters  or  mistresses  think  you  are 
hypnotized? 

Witnesses—"  No." 

VARIED    OCCUPATIONS   OF  ZION's   WITNESSES. 

Dr.  Dowie — I  see  policemen  here  standing  up.  I  know  they 
are  not  hypnotized.  I  see  railway  men  and  I  see  bankers.  I 
see  lawyers,  and  I  see  engineers.  I  see  tradesmen  of  all  the 
trades,  and  especially  of  the  constructive  trades,  hundreds  of 
them,  around  me.  It  is  simply  a  piece  of  impudence  upon  the 
part  of  any  one  to  say  that  you  are  all  hypnotized.  If  you 


232  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

were  all  hypnotized,  you  would  all  be  asleep,  and  I  do  not  think 
you  are  asleep. 

Brothers  and  sisters,  do  we  give  God  the  glory? 

Audience— "Yes.". 

Dr.  Dowie — May  God  carry  the  witness  of  more  than  fifteen 
hundred  persons  now  standing  down  to  the  bedside  of  Dwight 
L.  Moody,  and  may  God  in  His  infinite  mercy  make  that  brother 
to  repent,  and  turn  to  God  alone  for  his  healing.  (Amen.) 

He  is  a  Christian,  no  doubt  about  it;  but  he  has  been  a 
naughty  boy  lately,  and  he  had  to  be  spanked. 

He  has  been  telling  God  and  His  people  that  disease  is  not 
of  the  Devil.  Will  any  one  today  say  that  the  disease  from 
which  he  now  suffers,  which  interrupted  his  meetings  at  Kansas 
City,  came  from  God? 

Vocies— "No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Yet  according  to  his  theory,  it  would  come 
from  God.  It  does  not  come  from  God.  It  comes  from  the 
Devil.  Christ  came  to  destroy  the  works  of  the  Devil.  May 
we  all  help  each  other  in  helping  our  brothers  to  destroy  these 
and  all  other  works  of  Satan,  for  Christ's  sake. 

Peter,  the  apostle,  in  the  house  of  Cornelius,  the  Centurion, 
said  that  all  whom  Jesus  healed  "were  oppressed  of  the  Devil." 
It  is  just  the  same  today. 


ZION'S  WITNESS  AGAINST   THOSE   THAT  OPPRESS 

THE  WIDOW  AND  THE  FATHERLESS  AND 

THAT  TURN  ASIDE  THE  STRANGER 

FROM  HIS  RIGHT. 


INVOCATION. 


Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight,  and  profitable  unto  this  people,  Oh  Lord,  my  Strength 
and  my  Redeemer. 

I  declare  Zion's  Witness  for  God  specially  "against  those 
that  oppress  the  widow  and  the  fatherless,  and  that  turn  aside 
the  stranger  from  his  right."  The  text  I  have  quoted  to  you 
is  from  Malachi  3:5.  If  I  would  rank  it  with  another  passage, 
it  would  be  the  words  from  the  passage  of  Scripture  which  I 
read  to  you  in  the  Epistle  of  James,  the  last  verse  of  the  first 
chapter: 

Pure  Religion  and  undefiled  before  our  God  and  Father  is  this,  to  visit 
the  Fatherless  and  Widows  in  their  affliction,  and  to  keep  himself  unspotted 
from  the  world. 

What  is  needed  in  these  days  is,  above  all  things,  Pure 
Religion;  not  a  religion  which  is  mixed  up  with  Hiram  Abiff, 
the  Son  of  the  Widow,  his  stinking  bones  under  the  Temple, 
and  his  mythical  resurrection  by  King  Solomon.  All  the  abomi- 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  233 

nations  connected  with  that  system  are  simply  a  part  of  the 
worship  of  Baal. 

To  this  the  churches  have  largely  gone,  especially  the 
"Masonic"  Episcopal  Church,  commonly  called  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church. 

You  saw  the  picture  last  week  of  that  bishop  who  said  that 
Methodism  had  nothing  in  common  with  Dowie's  teaching. 
He  had  a  goat  under  his  right  arm  and  a  pig  under  the  other. 
He  also  carried  a  basketful  of  drugs  on  his  left  arm,  and  had  a 
society  dog  at  his  heels.  You  saw  that  church,  didn't  you?— 
"Masonic  Episcopal  Church,"  with  a  placard  upon  it,  "Oyster 
supper  tonight.  Prayer  meeting  postponed.  Admission,  twen- 
ty-five cents."  (Laughter.)  That  "Old  Serpent  the  Devil," 
wearing  a  plug  hat,  was  coming  out  of  the  church  with  a  smile 
of  intense  satisfact'on. 

These  cartoons  are  doing  g.ood  work.  They  are  making 
the  Ma-hah-bones  mightily  mad.  In  their  madness  they  are 
disclosing  their  real  character.  They  threaten  in  th^ir  impo- 
tent rage.  But  God  guards  all  in  Zion. 

LAWYERS    THE     OPPRESSORS     OF    THE     WIDOW,    THE     FATHERLESS, 
AND  THE  STRANGER. 

There  is  no  use  whatever  in  mincing  words  in  this  matter. 
There  is  no  question  that  today  the  widow  and  the  fatherless 
in  the  United  States  of  America  are  oppressed  to  a  terrific 
extent  by  that  class  of  men  who  are  called  lawyers.  Today 
the  greater  part  of  the  members  of  the  legal  profession  are  like 
vultures  who  scent  the  dead  from  afar  and  never  go  where 
there  are  roses  or  flowers  or  life.  It  is  said  that  a  vulture 
turns  sick  when  it  comes  into  a  rose  garden. 

There  are  vast  numbers  of  these  horrid  vultures  of  the  law 
who  scent  the  dead  from  afar.  They  swoop  down,  and  in  pre- 
tending to  be  the  friends  of  the  widow  and  the  fatherless,  they 
feed  upon  the  dead,  and  upon  the  dead  man's  estate,  until  they 
destroy  the  life  of  the  widow,  until  they  blast  the  future  of  the 
fatherless. 

If  I  were  to  tell  you  one  one-hundredth  part  of  the  true 
stories  which  I  have  heard  in  my  life;  if  I  were  to  tell  you  one 
one-hundredth  part  of  the  tales  which  have  been  told  me  from 
week  to  week  in  the  room  where  I  see,  on  Wednesdays,  the 
sorrowing  who  come  for  counsel  and  direction,  I  should  have 
to  write  volumes. 

These  volumes  would  be  connected  principally  with  the 
horrible  depravity  of  three  professions:  the  ministerial,  the 
medical  and  the  legal. 

I  should  have  to  tell  you  of  how  those  who  were  nominally 
God's  ministers,  who  professed  to  be  kind  doctors  of  medicine 
and  of  law,  have  closed  their  claws  upon  the  home  of  the  widow 


234  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

and  the  fatherless  before  the  coffin-lid  was  closed.  I  should 
have  to  relate  how  they  have  stolen  the  heritage  of  the  Widow, 
and  starved  and  cursed  the  Fatherless. 

I  am  not  making  statements  which  cannot  be  verified. 
They  are  verified  in  courts  of  law  every  week,  every  month, 
every  year,  not  only  in  this  country,  but  in  nearly  all  others. 

Jesus  said : 

Woe  unto  ye  lawyers!  for  ye  took  away  the  Key  of  Knowledge;  ye 
entered  not  in  yourselves,  and  them  that  were  entering  in  ye  hindered. 

If  I  were  to  tell  you  the  stories  which  are  connected  with 
the  turning  away  of  "the  Stranger  from  his  right,"  and  of  the 
robberies  by  these  three  professions,  and  especially  the  legal 
profession,  who  have  been  stealing  from  the  foreigner  who  did 
not  understand  our  language  or  our  laws,  I  should  have  to  tell 
you  the  story  written  with  lamentation  and  woe  within  and 
without. 

SIGHT   RESTORED   TO   AN   AGED    BLIND    LADY. 

I  remember  when  I  landed  at  the  Golden  Gate,  San  Fran- 
cisco, I  had  a  very  great  respect  and  love  for  your  institutions. 
I  was  expecting  that  I  should  find  things  so  much  brighter  and 
better  than  even  under  the  British  flag  in  Australia. 

I  was  shocked  within  the  very  first  month  of  my  stay  in  San 
Francisco  by  the  tales  that  were  brought  to  me  every  day  con- 
cerning those  who  had  been  robbed  by  processes  of  law  in  that 
city,  not  only  in  early  times,  but  even  at  the  time  when  I  was 
there,  1888  and  1889.  The  political  Boss  of  San  Francisco  at 
that  time  was  a  blind  saloonkeeper  named  Buckley,  and  the 
Courts  and  City  Council  seemed  to  be  a  part  of  his  political 
"machine."  The  history  of  California  in  its  early  days  is 
especially  full  of  crimes  committed  by  lawyers  who  robbed  the 
Widow,  the  Fatherless  and  the  Stranger. 

I  shall  never  forget  one  day  how  that  came  home  to  me  with 
tremendous  power.  A  sweet  little  lady,  richly  dressed,  with 
her  mother,  who  was  blind,  leaning  upon  her  arm,  came  up  to 
me  at  the  close  of  one  of  my  services  in  the  Grand  Opera 
House.  The  younger  one  of  the  two  said,  "  Doctor,  this  is  my 
mother,  the  Donna  Victor  Castro." 

The  Donna  said,  "Oh,  how  I  should  love  to  see  your  face, 
Doctor.  But  I  have  listened  to  your  voice,  and  I  believe  all 
you  say,  that  Jesus  Christ  is  just  the  same  today.  Lay  your 
hands  upon  my  head,  and  ask  the  great  Father  in  Heaven  to 
bless  me  that  I  may  see  the  face  of  my  dear  ones  before  I  die; 
that  I  may  see  the  bright  sun  once  again;  that  I  may  read 
God's  Word.  Pray  for  me." 

I  prayed  for  her,  and  that  night  she  saw  the  face  of  her  kind 
son-in-law  for  the  first  time.  She  was  surprised  to  find  that 
he  was  a  gray-haired  man,  although  comparatively  young. 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  235 

I  will  never  forget  the  intense  joy  of  the  Donna  when  she 
found  that  she  had  sight  enough  to  see  the  face  of  one  who 
had  married  her  daughter,  a  very  excellent  man  if  he  was  a 
lawyer,  because  there  are  some  lawyers  who  are  not  devils. 
The  most  of  them  are  devils  incarnate;  thieves,  liars,  cheats, 
who,  under  process  of  law,  are  ready  to  do  any  iniquity,  and 
for  fees  are  willing  to  fight  on  any  side,  the  right  or  the  wrong, 
just  as  they  are  paid. 

But  there  are  some  good  ones,  "counsellors  "  like  Joseph  of 
Arimathea,  and  like  Samuel  W.  Packard,  the  "counsellor"  of 
Zion  in  Chicago  today. 

WE    HAVE    A    GOOD    LAWYER    FOR    ZION. 

He  is  a  man  of  God,  but  I  wish  he  were  in  Zion  altogether. 
I  wish  he  were  out  of  that  "Valley  of  Dry  Bones,"  the  Congre- 
gational Church.  Oh,  it  is  dry!  I  lived  there  for  years,  and 
the  "dust"  nearly  chocked  me. 

It  is  one  degree  better  than  the  Baptist  valley,  because  that 
valley  has  only  enough  water  in  it  to  make  it  mud.  (Laughter.) 
Ugh!  you  miserable  Baptists!  You  know  that  you  have  gone 
to  the  Devil  as  an  organization.  God  is  through  with  you. 
He  cannot  use  you.  You  are  holding  on  to  the  money  of  men 
who  steal  like  the  Rockefellers.  God  Almighty  will  not  bless 
money  which  has  been  stolen  from  the  people. 

The  Donna  continued  to  attend  my  service.  Although  she 
bore  a  noble  Spanish  title,  she  was  an  American  lady.  Don 
Victor  Castro,  her  husband,  was  still  living  at  the  old  Hacienda 
across  the  bay,  near  San  Pablo,  where  his  father  before  him 
had  lived.  He  was  the  representative  of  the  Spanish  crown  in 
California,  long  before  the  City  of  San  Francisco  had  any 
existence. 

The  present  site  of  San  Francisco  was  called  Buena  Yerba 
at  that  time.  Long  before  the  United  States  had  won  its  inde- 
pendence Don  Victor  Castro's  father  had  come  here,  having 
been  placed  in  charge  of  that  coast  by  the  Spanish  king.  He 
had  vast  possessions^ 

The  Don  when  I  knew  him,  in  1888,  was  an  aged  man  of 
not  far  from  eighty  years  old,  and  his  father  had  died  at  an 
advanced  age. 

I  was  often  pressed  to  visit  the  Don,  and  at  last  I  went. 
He  was  very  much  interested.  I  found  a  thorough  Spanish 
gentleman  of  the  old  school.  Don  is  the  Spanish  word  for 
duke.  I  had  a  fine  and  very  pleasant  visit  in  the  very  interest- 
ing old  adobe  house,  with  walls  four  feet  thick,  practically  an 
old  fortress,  and  spent  many  a  pleasant  hour  listening  to  his 
wonderful  stories  of  the  olden  time. 

I  said  to  him,  "Don,  come  to  my  meetings  and  get  con- 
verted." 


236  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

"Well,"  he  said,  "will  you  come  then  and  visit  me  and  stay 
here  for  some  weeks  between  your  missions!" 

I  thought  a  minute  and  said,  "Yes." 

He  began  coming  to  the  meetings.  He  became  a  very  sin- 
cere Christian,  took  the  Lord's  Supper,  and  came  out  of  the 
Roman  Catholic  Church,  with  which  he  had  been  identified, 
with  his  family,  for  centuries. 

TERRIBLE    TALE  OF  ROBBERY    BY    LAWYERS. 

He  gave  me  his  full  confidence  when  I  became  his  guest. 
I  never  heard  such  a  tale  of  robbery  in  my  life.  When  I  heard 
that  tale  of  robbery  by  lawyers,  by  judges,  by  bribed  juries, 
by  District  Courts  and  State  Supreme  Courts,  my  blood 
boiled. 

A  man  who  had  owned  hundreds  of  thousands  of  acres  of 
land  was  robbed  of  all  but  the  small  parcel  of  ground  of  about 
ten  acres  upon  which  his  home  stood. 

Lawyers  like  Carpentier,  and  judges  like  the  man  who  was 
not  long  ago  shot  dead  in  the  San  Joaquin  Valley  when  he  was 
threatening  Justice  Field's  life,  were  amongst  the  thieves. 

As  I  listened  to  Don  Victor,  I  found  that  American  law 
would  permit  the  stranger  to  be  turned  from  his  right,  and  pro- 
tect the  thief  and  the  Oppressor. 

The  hospitable  man  had  opened  his  heart  and  his  home  with 
the  old  Spanish  love.  Men  told  me  that  if  ever  you  admired 
one  of  Don  Victor's  horses  in  the  olden  time,  he  would  give  it 
to  you  immediately,  saying,  "It  is  yours." 

When  I  entered  his  home  I  remember  how  he  bowed  and 
said  something  in  Spanish  which  I  asked  the  Donna  to  trans- 
late. She  said,  "He  is  telling  you  that  everything  is  yours. 
He  is  yours,  the  servants  are  yours,  we  are  all  yours  to  com- 
mand." 

That  was  in  his  heart.  He  loved  to  use  everything  to  make 
people  happy.  That  is  the  heart  of  a  true  Christian. 

But  he  was  robbed  of  his  cattle,  tens  of  thousands  of  head; 
robbed  of  his  lands,  and  there  was  left  just  a  little  bit  of  land, 
about  eight  or  ten  acres. 

When  I  heard  the  story  I  said  to  Don  Victor,  "  How  did 
you  keep  that?"  "I  will  tell  you  how  I  kept  that,"  he  said. 

"I  said  to  my  two  sons,  'Take  a  rifle,  each  of  you.'  I 
loaded  my  rifle,  and  when  they  came  with  a  legal  process  to 
steal  my  last  land  I  went  out  to  meet  them.  I  said.  '  It  is 
enough.  The  man  who  enters  with  a  legal  process  upon  this 
land,  I  will  shoot  dead.'  That  process  was  withdrawn  and 
never  executed.  If  he  had  entered,  I  would  have  shot  him, 
and  when  I  had  shot  him  dead,  I  would  have  gone  and  followed 
Carpentier  and  others,  and  shot  them  dead.  I  wanted  to  shoot 
no  man,  but  I  would  have  shot  them  dead.  That  is  the  only 


ZIOWS  HOLY   WAR.  237 

way  I  have  kept  this  little  bit  of  land  out  of  hundreds  of  thou- 
sands of  acres." 

Oh,  my  God,  how  "the  stranger  has  been  turned  aside  from 
his  right"  in  this  land,  from  the  Golden  Gate  at  San  Francisco 
to  Hell  Gate  at  New  York;  from  the  frozen  North  to  the  torrid 
South. 

ALL    OVER    THIS    LAND    THE    STRANGER     HAS    BEEN    TURNED    ASIDE 
FROM    HIS    RIGHT. 

Have  you  not  kept  the  African  from  his  right? 

Voices—"  Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Have  you  not  denied  him  what  you  grant  to 
the  foreigner  who  knows  less  than  he,  who  never  bled  for  this 
land  as  the  Afro-American  has? 

You  permit  the  South  to  let  him  vote.  Yet  you  know  that 
in  hundreds  and  in  thousands  of  cases  they  never  count  his  vote 
except  as  the  very  opposite  to  what  he  voted.  You  gave  him 
the  franchise.  You  gave  him  equal  rights,  and  yet,  before  God, 
how  you  oppress  him !  You  let  men  turn  him  aside  from  his 
right;  let  them  hang  him;  you  let  them  torture  him;  let  them 
burn  him  without  any  legal  trial,  even  under  this  administra- 
tion, not  only  years  ago. 

Ye  who  were  strangers  in  the  land,  have  you  not  turned  aside 
the  Indian  from  his  right?  Do  you  know  the  story  of  the 
Indians?  Do  you  know  the  story  that  they  can  tell,  of  how 
they  have  been  robbed  of  their  fairest  lands,  and  cheated? 
You  have  bought  great  possessions  for  a  bottle  of  rum  and  a 
few  trumpery  trinkets.  Your  laws  have  protected  the  thieves. 
You  have  oppressed  the  Widow,  the  Fatherless,  and  you  have 
turned  aside  the  Stranger  from  his  right. 

As  I  look  at  this  story  of  national  wrongdoing,  I  cannot  for- 
get what  God  has  decreed,  that 

NATIONS  AS   WELL    AS    INDIVIDUALS    MUST    REAP   WHAT   THEY  HAVE 

SOWN. 

It  w?s  this  awful  sin  of  Israel  in  the  time  of  Malachi  which 
caused  the  curse  to  come  upon  them.  It  caused  God  to  wit- 
ness by  that  prophet  against  the  sorcerer  and  the  adulterer,  and 
the  false  swearer  and  the  oppressor  of  the  widow  and  the 
fatherless,  and  those  who  turned  aside  the  stranger  from  his 
right. 

They  would  not  hear,  just  as  some  of  you  will  not  hear. 
You  do  not  want  to  hear.  It  touches  you  too  closely.  It  hurts 
you.  It  makes  you  remember  some  of  your  own  sins,  some  of 
your  own  oppressions.  You  are  feeling  it  badly,  and  you 
are  going  out  wounded.  The  Devil  is  taking  some  of  you 
out. 

I  always  preach  moving  sermons.     (Laughter.) 


238  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

I  can  tell  in  this  house  in  a  minute  where  a  Methodist  min- 
ister sits.  I  guarantee  I  will  move  him  in  ten  minutes  (laugh- 
ter), in  nine  cases  out  of  ten. 

I  know  when  I  am  moving  a   harlot.     She  cannot  stand  it. 

I  know  when  I  am  moving  a  thief. 

I  know  when  I  am  moving  a  sorcerer  (pharmacist)  or  an 
oppressor. 

This  oppression  of  the  widow  and  the  fatherless  and  the 
stranger  is  not  only  by  a  nation  or  a  class,  but  is  a  widespread 
individual  sin. 

Oh,  how  hard  the  lot  of  a  Widow  is. 

Think  of  her  when  the  grave  is  about  to  close  over  the 
husband  of  her  youth,  and  the  father  of  her  children!  She 
kneels  there  beside  her  dead.  All  the  earth  is  so  empty. 
The  little  ones  look  up  into  her  eyes  so  dim  with  tears 
that  she  can  scarce  see  them,  and  lay  their  heads  upon 
her  heart  so  heartbroken  that  she  could  almost  wish 
that  they  and  she  could  pass  away  together  and  lie  in  that 
grave. 

Have  ye  no  pity?  Have  ye  none,  though  ye  profess  to  be 
men  and  Christians? 

Should  not  that  Widow  and  these  Fatherless  ones  be  the 
subjects  of  national  and  municipal  as  well  as  individual  care? 
above  all,  should  they  not  be  the  care  of  the  True  Church  of 
God? 

THE    CHURCH    IS   LIKE   THE   UNJUST   JUDGE. 

The  Widow  and  the  Fatherless  come  and  say  to  the  apos- 
tate Church,  "Avenge  me  of  my  adversary." 

"What  is  your  adversary,  madam?" 

"  My  adversary  is  that  Accursed  Liquor  Traffic.  Avenge 
me  of  my  adversary,  oh  Church  of  the  Living  God.  Lift  up 
your  standard  and  strengthen  all  your  hands,  draw  your  swords 
and  fall  upon  this  monster  which  has  slain  my  husband,  and 
avenge  me." 

The  Church  says,  "Madam,  you  must  be  quiet.  You  must 
go  away  and  pray.  You  must  say,  'It  is  the  Lord;  let  Him  do 
what  seemeth  Him  good/  " 

You  liar!  You  monster!  who  dare  tell  that  woman  it  is  the 
Lord!  Is  it  the  Lord? 

Audience— "No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Does  He  license  men  to  sell  Liquid  Fire  and 
Distilled  Damnation? 

Audience — "  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — You  liars!     It  is  the  Devil. 

Then  again  the  Widow  comes.  She  cries,  "Oh,  Church  of 
God,  avenge  me  of  my  adversary!" 

"Who  is  your  adversary,  madam?" 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  239 

"  My  husband  was  entrapped  into  one  of  these  Dens  of 
Death  and  hell,  a  harlot's  house  and  a  gambling  hell,  the  two 
adjuncts  of  a  saloon." 

THE  THEATRE,  THE  SALOON,  THE    GAMBLING  HELL,  THE  BROTHEL, 
ARE  SIDE  BY  SIDE. 

You  go  to  the  theatre  and  you  will  find  that  the  saloon  and 
the  gambling  hell  and  the  house  of  her  whose  house  is  the  gate 
of  hell  all  lead  out  of  that  theatre.  It  is  ever  the  Way  to  the 
Pit. 

The  Widow  tells  the  Church  that  her  young  husband  lies 
dead.  There  is  a  bullet  through  his  brain.  He  put  it  there 
himself,  because  he  had  been  misled.  He  had  stolen  the 
money  of  his  employer.  He  had  been  seduced  by  liquor; 
seduced  by  the  theatre;  seduced  by  the  harlot;  seduced  by  the 
gambler.  He  had  gone  to  the  gambling  hell,  and  he  had  lost 
all  his  own.  Then  he  had  lost  all  he  could  steal.  Then,  as  he 
went  out  into  the  night,  he  was  afraid  to  face  it  all,  and  he 
took  a  revolver  and  put  a  bullet  through  his  brain. 

She  comes  to  the  Church  and  says,  "Avenge  me  of  mine 
adversary?  " 

Again  the  answer  is,  "It  is  the  Lord;  let  Him  do  what 
seemeth  Him  good." 

Is  it  the  Lord? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  God  ever  do  that  thing? 

Voices— "No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  He  make  the  gambling  hell? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — As  the  suffering  one  cries,  should  not  the 
Church  put  all  her  armor  on  and  go  forth  to  strike  that  horrid 
thing? 

THE  LEGAL  VULTURE. 

Again  the  Widow  cries:  "Avenge  me  of  mine  adversary!" 
She  tells  you  of  the  legal  adviser  who  got  her  estate  and 
robbed  her.  Now  she  has  no  bread  for  her  children,  no  home, 
no  friends. 

Ah!  But  he  stole  her  estate  by  law.  He  led  her  to  sign 
papers  He  led  her  on  to  do  things.  He  has  everything 
perfectly  clear,  so  that  the  Courts  cannot  disbar  him,  or  punish 
him  in  any  way.  She  is  hungry  and  cold,  and  the  winter  is 
coming  on,  and  her  children  are  starving  and  dying.  Shame- 
ful Sin  or  Death  are  her  only  alternatives,  if  she  cannot  get 
Justice. 

She  cries,  "Oh,  Church  of  God,  avenge  me  of  mine  adver- 
sary!" 

The  minister  says,  "Go  away;  it  is  the  Lord;  let  Him  do 
what  seemeth  Him  good."  And  that  lawyer  is  sitting  in  the 


240  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

Board  of  Management  of  that  Masonic  minister's  Church,  pro- 
tected in  his  robbery,  because  he  shares  the  plunder  with  its 
Treasury. 

Is  it  the  Lord? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie— It  is  the  Devil. 

The  Widow  comes,  and  the  Fatherless  comes,  and  the  Stran- 
ger turned  aside  from  his  right  comes,  and  the  Church 
has  no  place  to  receive  them,  and  no  effective  help  to  give 
them. 

MAY  ZION  GO  FORTH  TO  PROTECT  THE  WIDOW,  THE  FATHER- 
LESS, AND  THE  STRANGER. 

Oh  God  in  the  Heavens,  wilt  Thou  not  show  Zion  a  way  by 
which  she  can  take  the  sorrowing,  the  broken-hearted,  the 
Widow,  the  Fatherless  and  the  Stranger  to  the  heart  of  her 
Infinite  Love  in  Christ?  Show  Zion  the  way.  There  is  a  way. 
I  cannot  do  much,  but  looking  back  upon  the  things  which  in 
life  I  have  wrought,  there  is  nothing  that  gives  me  greater  joy 
than  the  numbers  of  Widows  and  Fatherless  whom  I  have  been 
enabled  by  some  knowledge  of  that  which  was  the  law  and 
right  to  save  from  the  claws  of  these  villains  and  vultures. 

Zion's  witness  must  go  on,  and  Zion  must  stand  against 
f:hese  things.  Zion  must  find  the  way:  for  the  Church  of  God 
//as  sent  into  this  world  to  show  the  Way  for  the  sorrowing, 
and  the  sick,  and  the  perishing;  to  find  deliverance  for  all  in 
Him  who  is  the  Way,  the  Truth,  and  the  Life. 

Friends,  the  Kingdom  of  God  is  divisible  into  three  parts. 
Christ  said  through  His  apostle,  "The  Kingdom  of  God  is 
Righteousness  and  Peace  and  Joy  with  the  Holy  Ghost." 

Do  you  desire  peace  and  do  you  desire  joy?  Do  you  wish, 
when  life  is  over,  to  go  with  bounding  steps  into  the  presence 
of  the  King,  hearing  Him  say,  "Enter  thou  into  the  joy  of  thy 
Lord  "? 

Then,  my  brother  and  my  sisters,  remember  that  unless  you 
are  in  the  fight  for  righteousness,  unless  you  are  standing  with 
God  against  sin  and  against  all  uncleanness,  unless  you  are 
determined  yourselves  to  do  right,  no  matter  what  it  costs,  you 
do  not  know  God.  You  have  never  repented  of  sin,  you  have 
never  been  saved  from  sin,  and  you  are  not  fitted  to  enter 
heaven. 

CALL. 

If  you  will  do  right  and  rest  in  Christ's  Righteousness,  you 
will  receive  not  only  imputed  but  an  imparted  Righteousness; 
not  only  an  imputed  but  an  imparted  Peace;  not  only  an 
imputed  but  an  imparted  Joy.  The  Joy  of  the  Lord  will  be 
your  strength  and  mine.  All  who  desire  that  Kingdom  in  their 
hearts,  stand  and  ask  God  to  bring  it  there.  All  who  want 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  241 

Righteousness,    Peace   and   Joy   in   the    Holy    Ghost,   stand. 
(With  but  a  few  exceptions,  the  entire  audience  arose.) 

PRAYER  OF  CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me 
power  to  do  right,  no  matter  what  it  costs.  Give  me  Thy  Holy  Spirit  that 
I  may  do  right  to  my  fellowman;  that  I  may  repent,  restore  and  do  right 
in  Thy  sight.  Give  me  Thy  Holy  Spirit  that  I  may  confess  in  Thy  sight, 
and  by  Thy  grace  turn  from  my  sin  to  Thee,  my  God. 

From  the  wilderness  and  the  swine-trough  may  I  find  a  place  in  my 
Father's  House,  for  the  sake  of  "Jesus,  the  Lamb  of  God  that  taketh  away 
the  sin  of  the  world."  Give  me  power  to  live  as  a  Witness  against  the 
Sorcerer,  and  the  Adulterer,  and  the  False  Swearer,  and  the  Oppressor  of 
the  Widow,  and  of  the  Fatherless,  and  of  those  who  turn  aside  the  Stranger 
from  his  right,  and  that  do  not  fear  Thee. 

Put  Thy  love  and  fear  in  my  heart.  Help  me  to  help  others;  to  follow 
in  the  footsteps  of  Jesus,  who  went  about  doing  good,  and  healing  all  that 
were  oppressed  of  the  Devil.  Bless  Zion  everywhere,  and  this  Witnessing 
Sermon  to  the  ends  of  the  earth,  for  Jesus'  sake.  (All  repeat  the  prayer, 
clause  by  clause,  after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

Did  you  mean  it? 
Audience— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Will  you  help  each  other  to  live  it? 
Audience — "  Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Will  you  live  it  yourselves? 
Audience— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Will  you  consecrate  all  you  have  and  are  to 
God? 

Audience— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Do  it,  and  do  it  practically. 

PRAYER   BY   THE   GENERAL   OVERSEER. 

Father  in  heaven,  bless  this  meeting,  and  bless  us  in  the  further  service 
tonight.  Oh  God,  in  the  South  Side  Zion  Tabernacle,  help  us  to  carry  for- 
ward this  witnessing  until  it  touches  the  hearts  of  the  multitudes,  until  it 
touches  the  heart  of  the  nation,  for  Jesus'  sake. 

The  grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  and  the  love  of  God,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  abide  in  you,  bless  you,  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God 
everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


ZION'S    HOLY    WAR. 


SERMON— CONTINUATION     OF     ZION'S     WITNESS    AGAINST 

THOSE    THAT    OPPRESS    THE    WIDOW  AND  THE 

FATHERLESS  AND  THAT  TURN  ASIDE 

THE  STRANGER  FROM  HIS 

RIGHT. 


South  Side  Zion  Tabernacle,  Lord's  Day  Evening,  November  19,  1899. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing  Hymn  No.  391 : 

Look,  ye  saints,  the  sight  is  glorious; 

See  the  Man  of  "sorrows"  now; 
From  the  fight  returned  victorious, 

Every  knee  to  Him  shall  bow. 

REFRAIN— Crown  Him,  crown  Him,  angels  crown  Him, 
Crown  the  Saviour,  King  of  Kings. 

Dr.  Dowie  then  read  in  the  Inspired  Wor'd  of  God,  first  in 
the  Book  of  the  Prophet  Malachi,  in  the  third  chapter;  also  in 
the  eighteenth  chapter  of  the  Gospel  according  to  St.  Luke. 

The  tithes  and  offerings  were  then  received. 

Dr.  Dowie  delivered  the  following  discourse: 

INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight,  and  profitable  unto  this  people,  oh  Lord,  my  Strength 
and  my  Redeemer. 

In  the  course  of  this  series  of  addresses  in  Zion's  Holy  War, 
I  have,  during  the  last  seven  weeks,  spoken  publicly  on  an 
average  of  more  than  once  every  day 

I  have  spoken  principally  upon  the  words  in  the  third  chap- 
ter of  the  Book  of  Malachi  and  the  fifth  verse. 

TEXT. 

I  will  come  near  to  you  to  judgment;  and  I  will  be  a  Swift  Witness 
against  the  Sorcerers,  and  against  the  Adulterers,  and  against  False 
Swearers;  and  against  those  that  oppress  the  hireling  in  his  wages,  the 
widow,  and  the  fatherless,  and  that  turn  aside  the  stranger  from  his  right, 
and  that  fear  not  Me,  saith  Jehovah  of  hosts. 

I  come  again  to  that  portion  of  the  Witnessing  which  deals 
with  "those  that  oppress  the  Widow,  and  the  Fatherless,  and 
that  turn  aside  the  Stranger  from  his  right." 

One  of  the  greatest  curses  that  can  ever  come  to  a  land  is 
that  it  shall  be  flooded  with  lawyers. 

The  creation  of  litigation  is  their  business.  One  of  them 
said  to  me  a  little  while  ago,  when  I  was  reproving  him  for 
something  which  was  manifestly  wicked,  "You  know,  Doctor, 

War— 243 


244  ZION'S   HOLY   WAR. 

we  are  called  the  Devil's  Own."  I  said,  "You  are  not  mis- 
called, either."  (Laughter.) 

That  is  just  what  they  are,  for  the  most  part:  the  Devil's 
Own,  although  there  are  many  splendid  exceptions. 

One  of  the  saddest  things  in  connection  with  life  as  we  see 
it  today  in  this  land  is  the  curse  which  has  come  upon  it 
through  the  vultures  of  the  legal  profession. 

Written  within  and  without,  it  is  a  scroll  of  lamentation  and 
misery. 

Those  who  profess  to  be  the  protectors,  and  profess  to  be 
the  administrators  and  interpreters  of  justice,  are  in  thousands 
of  cases  its  betrayers. 

My  experience  has  been  somewhat  widely  extended  over  a 
great  part  of  the  world  by  personal  travel  and  stay,  and  I  am 
in  a  position  to  speak  as  perhaps  few  men  are  concerning  the 
oppressors  of  the  widow,  fatherless  and  strangers  today. 

When  I  landed  on  these  shores  at  the  Golden  Gate  in  1888 
I  had  high  hopes  that  my  short  residence  in  America,  for  then 
I  expected  it  to  be  short,  would  result  in  great  admiration  for 
the  free  institutions  and  the  legal  safeguards  of  this  republic. 

GOOD  LAWS  AND  JUSTICE  BETRAYED  BY  THOSE  SWORN  TO  PRO- 
TECT THEM. 

I  do  not  intend  to  bring  a  railing  accusation  against  the 
land  in  which  I  dwell.  I  have  hundreds  and  thousands  of 
devoted  friends  in  America,  from  ocean  to  ocean,  and  from 
no.rth  to  south.  Yet,  if  I  say  to  you  that  it  is  a  land  where 
there  are  excellent  laws,  but  where  these  laws  are  betrayed  by 
the  very  men  who  are  sworn  as  counsellors,  attorneys,  and  by 
the  nature  of  their  oath  are  compelled  to  say  that  they  will  do 
justly,  I  would  say  the  truth.  If  I  say  to  you  that  the  people 
are  betrayed,  and  the  laws  destroyed  and  the  administration  of 
justice  interfered  with,  and  above  all,  the  widow  and  the  father- 
less and  the  strangers  are  oppressed,  you  know  I  would  be  say- 
ing the  truth. 

THE    PARABLE    OF   THE   WIDOW   AND   THE   UNJUST   JUDGE. 

In  the  parable  which  I  read  to  you  in  the  eighteenth  chap- 
ter of  Luke,  you  have  a  story  which  is  repeated  continually  in 
the  so-called  courts  of  justice  in  this  land.  The  approach  to  a 
judge  is  made  very  difficult  unless  money  is  there  to  pave  the 
way,  to  fee  an  eloquent  tongue  and  to  pay  for  time  and  talent 
You  may  as  well  put  up  with  it  at  the  beginning  and  just  let 
the  thing  go,  because  justice  is  not  possible  without  a  fight  to 
get  it. 

Justice  is  not  dispensed  to  the  people  freely,  fully  and 
heartily.  The  way  to  the  judge  is  barred  by  a  thousand  petty, 
miserable  obstructions,  and  by  obsolete  and  wretched  pro- 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  245 

visions  as  to  what  is  and  what  is  not  evidence.  The  judge  has 
to  sit  there  bound  by  the  cobwebs  of  legal  precedents  and 
unable  to  get  at  the  matter  because  of  the  entanglement  of  the 
miserable  whip  of  legal  procedures. 

Good,  common-sense  men  could  quickly  settle  matters. 
The  disgraceful  failure  of  the  jury  system  is  a  curse.  Bribery 
and  the  crass  ignorance  of  the  men  who  are  selected  to  try 
cases,  their  prejudices  being  permitted  to  influence  their  judg- 
ments, make  their  verdicts  in  these  cases  perfect  farces.  Juries 
are  bought  and  paid  for  while  they  are  trying  the  cause.  That 
is  a  matter  of  public  record,  there  being  a  number  of  persons 
fugitives  from  justice  in  Chicago  today  because  of  their  brib- 
ing juries. 

I  pass  on  from  the  judicial  side  of  this  matter  to  the 
ecclesiastical. 

IF   THE    TRUE     CHURCH    OF    GOD     WERE     BOLD    AND     BRAVE,    THE 
PEOPLE    COULD    GET   JUSTICE. 

The  Widow  and  the  Fatherless  tonight  in  thousands  and 
tens  and  hundreds  of  thousands  are  poor,  miserable,  wretched 
and  in  the  slums  because  their  heritage  has  been  stolen  from 
them  by  lawyers. 

The  Strangers  have  been  turned  aside  from  their  right,  and 
have  been  rilled  with  hatred  for  American  institutions. 
They  have  joined  the  ranks  of  the  anarchists  and  would-be 
revolutionists. 

Yet,  if  the  Church  of  God  did  its  duty  and  was  led  by  strong, 
resolute,  loving-hearted  men  who  are  true  to  God,  then  the 
earth  would  be  judged,  even  now,  by  the  saints  of  God. 

The  multitudes  of  people  are  crying  out  for  justice  which 
has  fallen  in  the  streets. 

They  are  longing,  after  all,  deep  down  in  their  hearts,  for 
truth.  They  are  seeking  some  power  which  can  come  in  and 
right  the  intolerable  wrongs  which  now  exist. 

No  power  can  do  it  for  us  but  God's.  In  no  other  way  can 
it  be  done  than  through  the  Holy  Catholic  Church,  the  True 
Church  of  the  Living  God. 

"l    BELIEVE    IN   THE    HOLY   CATHOLIC   CHURCH." 

That  Church  is  the  only  power  which  can  do  this  in  the 
world.  I  did  not  say  the  Roman  Catholic.  I  did  not  say  the 
Greek  Catholic.  I  did  not  say  the  English  Catholic.  I  said 
the  Holy  Catholic  Church;  that  which  is  more  than  Rome, 
more  than  Greece,  more  than  America,  more  than  England— 
the  True  Church  of  the  Living  God. 

Despite  all  that  has  been  at  strife  with  blessing,  and  all 
that  has  been  rife  with  curses,  that  Church  yet  exists,  and 


246  ZION*$  HOLY  WAR. 

God  will  bring  it  forward  into  the  Light.     May  He  hasten  it. 
(Amen.)     As  in  the  parable, 

WIDOWS,  ORPHANS  AND  STRANGERS  ARE  CRYING  ALOUD  TO  GOD 
FOR  VENGEANCE. 

Shall  not  God  avenge  them?  Doth  He  not  hear  the  cry  of 
the  laborer  whose  hire  is  kept  back  by  fraud? 

He  says  He  does,  and  that  He  will  avenge  them. 

Does  He  not  hear  the  cry  of  the  widow  and  the  fatherless 
and  the  strangers  who  have  been  robbed  mostly  under  forms 
of  law?  He  does,  and  He  will  avenge  them  speedily. 

Let  me  present  you  some  of  these  widows  and  fatherless 
ones  for  a  moment  in  their  Appeal  to  the  Church  of  God. 

Do  you  see  them? 

I  see  them  tonight  in  ten  thousand  homes,  pale,  heart- 
broken ere  the  coffin  lid  is  closed  forever  over  the  dead  they 
loved  and  have  lost.  Widows  with  their  children  are  reach- 
ing out  their  hands  to  God  tonight  and  crying,  "Oh  God, 
wilt  Thou  not  cause  Thy  Church  to  avenge  me  of  mine 
adversary?"  What  is  she  crying  for? 

What  is  it?  See!  There  in  that  casket  is  the  husband  of 
her  youth,  the  man  of  her  love.  There  is  her  whole  heart. 
Who  has  stolen  him?  Pile  up  the  dead  bodies  tonight  at  the 
Gates  of  Chicago  of  those  who  have  been  slain  by  Alcohol. 

Oh,  there  would  be  a  ten  thousand  times  higher  pile  than 
the  heads  of  the  dead  princes  which  Jehu  saw  when  he  reined 
up  his  chariot  at  the  gate  of  Jezreel  and  said,  "Who  slew  all 
these?"  The  traffic  in  liquid  fire  and  distilled  damnation,  the 
accursed  alcohol  poison,  has  dug  the  graves  of  millions,  and  is 
digging  the  graves  of  happy  homes  in  uncounted  numbers 
tonight. 

As  she  nears  that  bier  with  her  fatherless  children  she  is 
crying  out,  "Oh  God.  wilt  not  Thy  Church  arm  its  men  and 
women  in  the  whole  armor  of  God,  and  send  them  out  to  fight 
this  worse  than  dragon  which  has  destroyed  our  dear  one,  not 
only  slaying  his  body,  but  dragging  his  spirit  down  to  hell 
amidst  the  damned?" 

HEARTLESS  AND  FALSE  ANSWER  OF  THE  CHURCH  TO  THE  CRY 
OF  THE  WIDOW  AND  FATHERLESS. 

What  does  the  Church  answer  to  the  widow  and  the  father- 
lees  when  they  cry  from  the  side  of  their  dead? 

"Beloved,  it  is  the  Lord;  let  Him  do  what  seemeth  Him 
good." 

Is  it  the  Lord? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie— Did  God  license  that  Traffic? 

Voices—"  No." 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  247 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  God  give  that  man  a  license  to  sell  the 
accursed  liquor  which  destroys  spirit,  soul  and  body?  That 
poison  sent  that  man  drunk  from  a  saloon,  followed  by  a  thug. 

In  order  to  get  his  week's  wages  the  criminal  drew  him  into  a 
dark  place.  When  he  fought  for  the  bread  for  his  children, 
for  the  little  money  that  he  had  earned  with  his  toil,  he  got  a 
bullet  through  his  brain.  He  was  drunk  and  unable  to  pro- 
tect himself.  Having  gorte  through  the  gate  of  hell,  on  the 
way  to  his  home  he  found  his  bed  in  hell,  and  that  is  now  his 
spirit's  home. 

Did  God  do  it? 

Voices— "No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Shall  not  God  answer  this  cry  which  comes 
from  stricken  mothers,  broken-hearted  fathers,  from  the  widow 
and  the  fatherless,  against  that  horrid  traffic  which  fills  the 
graves  and  the  insane  asylums,  and  the  orphan  asylums  and 
the  jails,  and  provides  victims  for  the  gallows? 

Is  there  no  answer?     The  answer  is  this,  that 

THE    CHURCH     OF   GOD     MUST    NOT     HAVE    WITHIN    HER     RANKS   A 

MAN    OR    A   WOMAN   WHO   TOUCHES,  TASTES    OR   TRAFFICS 

IN    THAT  ACCURSED    POISON    OF   HELL. 

Zion  has  none.  If  I  knew  of  one  member  in  this  Church, 
in  all  this  audience  of  thousands,  who  drinks,  much  less  sells, 
alcohol,  I  would  summon  him  at  once  and  say,  "Put  your 
whisky  bottle  or  your  beer  mug  there  and  kneel  down  and  ask 
God  to  help  you  to  drink  it  for  His  glory;  to  sell  it  for  His 
glory."  Is  there  one  man  who  could  do  it? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — What  you  cannot  pray  over,  you  cannot  do  in 
Zion.  Thank  God  for  that.  (Amen.) 

The  Widow  and  the  Fatherless  are  crying  out  to  God 
because  of  other  oppressions. 

See!  Here  is  a  widow.  She  has  come,  and  she  is  crying 
out  to  God  and  to  His  Church,  for  her  husband  or  her  son  is 
lying  dead  tonight,  a  bullet  through  his  heart.  Tell  me  who 
killed  him? 

DAMNING   WORK   OF   THE    FILTHY   THEATRES. 

Oh,  he  simply  went  to  the  theatre.  He  listened  to  the  lips 
of  painted  harlots  who  were  seducing  his  heart. 

He  found  that  from  the  theatre  there  were  three  gates. 

One  led  to  the  house  of  her  whose  house  is  the  very  gate  of 
hell.  The  dead  are  there. 

Another  led  to  a  saloon. 

Another  led  to  a  gambling  hell. 

He  passed  through  each,  and  sank  into  the  arms  of  Death 
and  Hell. 


248  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

The  harlot's  house  led  into  the  saloon,  or  the  saloon  to  the 
harlot's  house,  and  from  thence  to  the  gambling  hell,  where  he 
spent  his  substance  in  riotous  living,  late  nights,  and  frequent 
drunkenness. 

Now  the  frenzy  had  seized  him,  and  to  retrieve  his  losses, 
night  after  night,  he  feverishly  plays  his  cards  and  takes  his 
chances,  and  has  before  him  the  vision  of  great  success. 

No;  it  is  gone!  Tonight  he  has  no  money  except  what  he 
can  steal.  He  has  stolen  it.  It  is  his  children's.  It  is  his 
wife's.  It  is  his  employer's.  It  is  somebody's.  He  has  stolen 
it  and  he  risks  it.  He  throws  it.  Last  chance.  Gone!  GONE!  ! 

He  goes  out  into  the  darkness.  The  revolver  is  at  his  ear. 
He  blows  his  brains  out.  His  dead  body  is  taken  home. 

It  is  the  work  of  that  Trinity  of  Hell— the  Saloon,  the 
Theatre,  and  the  Gambling  House. 

The  widow  cries  tonight,  "Avenge  me  of  mine  adversary," 
and  the  minister  comes  to  comfort  her.  He  kneels  down  and 
prays.  He  says:  "Whom  the  Lord  loveth  He  chasteneth.  It 
is  the  Lord;  He  doeth  what  seemeth  good  in  His  sight." 

Is  it  the  Lord? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie— Is  it  the  Devil? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Has  the  Church  no  answer  except  a  lie? 

LYING   INSCRIPTION    UPON   A   TOMBSTONE. 

I  met  a  weeping  mother  in  a  cemetery.  She  was  bending 
over  the  grave  of  a  dear  daughter,  and  I  saw  her  throw  herself 
prostrate  upon  that  grave  and  weep. 

I  went  up  and  looked  at  the  inscription: 

"THE  LORD  GAVE,  AND  THE  LORD  HATH  TAKEN  AWAY." 

I  looked  at  the  mother  and  recognized  her.  I  said, 
"Madam!  Arise!" 

She  looked  at  me. 

"Sit  right  up,  madam.  Did  you  write  that  inscription 
there?" 

"  I  did." 

"Do  you  know  me?" 

"Oh  yes,"  she  said.  "I  know  you  now.  Oh,  can  you  com- 
fort me,  Doctor? 

"How  shall  I  best  comfort  you?  Shall  I  comfort  you  with 
the  lie  which  you  have  written  there,  or  shall  I  comfort  you  by 
telling  you  the  Truth  and  by  leading  you  to  God  through 
Repentance  for  your  Sin?" 

"Oh,"  she  said,  "tell  me  the  truth." 

I  said,  "I  knew  Mary." 

"I  know  you  did,  Doctor." 

"I  watched  over  her." 


Z ION'S  HOLY   WAR.  249 

(I  came  back  to  that  city,  after  some  years  of  absence,  and 
I  was  strolling  in  the  cemetery  looking  at  the  inscriptions,  not 
thinking  that  I  should  meet  any  of  my  old  people,  when 
I  saw  this  broken-hearted  woman  throw  herself  upon  the 
grave.) 

Mary  was  a  dear,  sweet  child,  and  oftentimes  I  used  to  say 
to  her  mother,  "  Now  be  careful.  You  are  wealthy.  You  love 
Society.  Mary  is  beautiful.  She  will  grow  into  a  lovely 
woman.  Be  careful.  Do  not  sell  her  birthright  for  a  miserable 
mess  of  Society's  pottage.  Let  her  grow  up  the  noble 
woman  that  she  will  grow.  She  does  not  want  to  go  to  the 
dance." 

"Oh,"  said  the  mother,  "you  are  rather  extreme.  We  do 
not  think  like  you  about  dancing,  and  I  cannot  promise  you." 

"Then,"  I  said,  "some  day  over  your  dead  I  shall  remind 
you  of  this." 

"Oh,"  she  said,  "what  a  horrid  prophesy." 

I  said  to  her  there  in  that  cemetery,  "Madam,  do  you 
remember  what  I  told  you?"  And  it  came  back  to  her. 

THE   DEVIL'S   VICTORY    OVER   A   BEAUTIFUL   GIRL. 

No  one  had  told  me  how  she  had  died.  But  I  knew  that 
she  had  become  a  Society  Belle,  and  had  developed  serious 
lung  disease. 

The  story  was  so  plain.  Mary  did  not  want  to  go  to  the 
ball;  Mary  did  not  want  to  go  to  the  dance.  She  loved  the 
Lord,  and  she  desired  above  all  things  to  serve  Him.  But  the 
ambitious  father  and  mother  wanted  Mary  to  shine  in  the  "best 
society,"  as  they  called  it. 

They  forced  her  into  the  ballroom.  They  forced  her  to 
permit  men  whose  bosoms  were  studded  with  diamonds,  but 
whose  hearts  were  foul  with  sin,  to  pass  their  unclean  arms 
around  her.  Their  arms  had  embraced  the  harlot,  and  the 
parents  knew  it  was  so  rumored ;  but  wealth  and  social  rank 
closed  their  ears  and  blinded  their  eyes. 

Mary  danced,  and  as  she  danced  her  passion  arose. 

Her  lover  brought  her  the  wine  cup,  and  she  tasted  it.  She 
saw  the  opening  scene  of  a  newly-discovered  paradise. 

She  danced  and  her  bosom  was  aglow  with  strange 
emotions.  Her  heart  beat  faster,  and  she  listened  to  words 
which  had  never  come  to  her  pure  ears  before.  It  seemed 
strange  that  she  did  not  repel  them  with  indignation;  but  the 
dance,  the  wine  cup,  the  flattery  and  the  excitement  of  passion 
made  Sin  to  lose  its  hatefulness.  And  so  she  listened,  and  the 
Tempter  appeared  beautiful  as  an  angel  of  light. 

She  danced,  and  one  night  when  the  mother  took  her  home 
—it  is  sad  to  tell  it — Mary  was  drunk.  Mary  had  drunk  more 
wine  in  that  night  than  she  had  in  all  her  lifetime. 


250  Z 'ION'S  HOLY   WAS. 

She  was  drunk.  She  laughed;  she  talked;  she  chatted. 
Mother  had  to  put  her  fingers  in  her  ears  to  keep  out  the 
horrid  things  which  the  drunken  child  was  saying. 

Mary  threw  open  her  breast  to  the  cold  morning  air.  She 
would  not  wear  wraps.  The  chilly  air  struck  her  beautiful 
form. 

The  next  day  Mary  said  when  she  awoke,  "Mother, 
where  was  I  last  night?  What  did  I  do?  Did  I  dance 
with  that  son  of  the  mayor?  Mother,  do  not  tell  me  that 
I  let  him  put  his  unclean  arms  around  me.  Mother,  was  I 
there? 

"Yes,  dear,  you  were  there,  but  I  shall  not  let  him  touch 
you  again." 

She  put  down  her  head.  Her  heart  was  broken.  The  shame 
of  it  came  to  her,  the  dim  remembrance  of  foolish  words.  She 
was  stricken  with  remorse,  and  her  sickness  developed  into 
consumption. 

But  she  went  again  and  again  to  the  ball;  for  mother  took 
her  to  another  and  another.  She  became  reckless  in  pursuing 
pleasure.  She  seemed  to  get  better  now  and  then.  But 
in  less  than  a  year  Mary  lay  upon  her  deathbead.  She 
died  without  any  real  sign  of  restoration  to  God.  But  He 
knows. 

She  had  danced  her  life  away.  Her  so-called  Christian 
father  and  mother  who  had  driven  her  into  the  shambles  of  the 
Devil  put  upon  her  gravestone: 

"THE  LORD  GAVE,  AND  THE  LORD  HATH  TAKEN  AWAY." 

As  I  sat  with  her  mother  there  that  day,  I  said,  "  Mother, 
the  Lord  gave  her  to  you,  and  the  Devil  took  her  away."  The 
woman  bowed  her  head  and  said,  "It  is  true.  It  is  true.  Shall 
I  ever  have  forgiveness?  Shall  I  ever  have  forgiveness?"  Then 
in  a  new  grief  she  cast  herself  upon  the  ground,  and  cried, 
"  Mary,  Mary,  I  killed  you." 

That  mother  lives  today,  but  none  of  her  other  children  have 
ever  gone  to  the  dance. 

THE  CHURCH  DOES  NOT  PROTECT  THE  YOUTH. 

When  these  Marys  die  the  minister  comes  in  and  says: 
"It  is  the  Lord;  let  Him  do  what  seemeth  Him  good." 
They  write  that  inscription  on  the  gravestone.  They  tell  the 
same  lie  that  Job  told  when  he  said  the  Lord  gave  and  the 
Lord  hath  taken  away,  because  the  Book  says  the  Lord  gave 
and  the  Devil  took  away. 

But  has  the  Church  no  answer  for  the  Widow  and  the  Father- 
less hearts?  Those  whose  hands  are  stretched  out  for  their 
darlings  which  that  very  Church  has  helped  to  drive  to  the 
Devil? 


ZION^S  HOLY   WAR.  25! 

A  few  weeks  ago  a  party  was  held  under  the  auspices  of  a 
Church  to  get  money.  They  dressed  as  ghosts.  One  of  them 
is  in  the  grave  today,  and  they  wrote  upon  her  tomb: 

"THE  LORD  GAVE,  AND  THE  LORD  HATH  TAKEN  AWAY." 

The  widowed  mother  and  the  fatherless  children  are  weep- 
ing over  that  grave  today,  but  it  was  the  so-called  Church  which 
called  her  forth  to  do  the  damning  work  which  killed  her  that 
Halloween  night. 

Was  it  the  Lord  who  did  it? 

Voice—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — I  plead  tonight  that  the  apostate  churches  are 
the  Oppressors  of  the  Widow  and  the  Fatherless,  and  are 
turning  aside  the  Stranger  from  his  right. 

OPPRESSION      OF      THE     WIDOW     AND     THE     FATHERLESS     IN      THE 

COURTS. 

Do  you  see  this  Widow? 

She  comes  up  to  this  judge's  judgment  seat  with  her  children, 
and  looks  into  his  face.  All  her  husband's  estate  is  gone,  and 
these  children  are  penniless.  There  is  no  money  for  lawyers, 
and  she  has  gone  into  the  court  herself. 

"Judge,  my  husband  died  worth  ten  thousand  dollars,  and 
these  children  are  starving.  Avenge  me  of  mine  adversary." 

"Why  do  you  not  bring  your  case  to  this  court  in  a  proper 
manner?  Why  do  you  not  have  a  lawyer?  I  am  not  here  to 
listen  to  you.  You  must  be  represented  by  counsel." 

"Judge,  I  have  no  money.     Avenge  me  of  mine  adversary.15 

"You  must  go  and  get  somebody  to  take  up  your  case.  I 
cannot  listen  to  you." 

"Judge,  will  you  not  let  me  tell  you  that  I  am  hungry? 
That  I  am  dying?  That  my  children  are  starving?" 

"No;  I  have  nothing  to  do  with  a  case  like  that.     Go!" 

She  goes,  but  the  cry  of  her  children  is  in  her  ears.  At  the 
banquet  that  night  she  is  at  the  door.  She  rings  the  bell.  She 
wants  to  see  the  judge.  The  judge  sends  out  to  see  who  it  is. 
It  is  this  woman. 

"Drive  her  away!" 

But  through  the  halls  her  cry  rings  out,  "Avenge  me  of 
mine  adversary.  Oh  Judge,  give  me  justice.  Give  me  justice." 

"Drive  her  away!"  The  next  day  as  he  leaves  his  house  to 
go  to  the  judgment  seat  she  is  there,  and  her  pale  face  is 
there,  and  her  cry,  "Judge,  avenge  me  of  mine  adversary." 

"Drive  her  away!" 

She  goes  back,  and  in  his  dreams  and  his  visions  that  night 
he  hears  the  cry,  "Avenge  me  of  mine  adversary." 

She  has  gone  to  the  Church  first.  The  Church  cannot  help 
her.  The  Lawyer  has  stolen  her  money.  The  Judge  is  a 


252  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

partaker  with  the  thief  and  has  been  bribed  to  hold  his  peace. 
He  has  taken  part  of  the  spoils. 

But  shall  not  God  avenge  her? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Shall  God  forever  let  it  be  so? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — God  will  avenge  them  speedily. 

THE   STRANGER    TURNED    FROM    HIS    RIGHT. 

All  over  this  land  how  the  stranger  has  been  defrauded! 

Dr.  Dowie  then  related  the  story  of  the  Spanish  nobleman 
robbed  of  his  California  estate  by  lawyers,  substantially  as 
given  in  the  previous  report. 

He  then  continued:  A  certain  lady,  the  widow  of  a  certain 
gentleman,  was  traveling  in  that  neighborhood.  She  stopped 
and  was  received  with  all  the  courtesy  of  a  Spanish  don.  As 
he  was  receiving  her,  he  never  told  her  that  it  was  her  husband, 
an  American  general,  who  had  stolen  his  most  precious  things 
during  the  war. 

He  sat  her  down  to  his  table,  and  put  upon  that  table  the 
beautiful  remnants  of  his  gold  and  silver  plate.  They  began 
telling  stories  of  how  they  had  some  beautiful  things  in  their 
Eastern  home  which  the  General  had  taken  during  the  war. 
One  lady  said,  "Some  of  them  are  cloth  of  gold  capes  and 
beautiful  gold  vases  and  other  costly  things  with  V.  C.  upon 
them." 

The  dear  old  don  could  not  stand  it  any  longer.  He 
bowed  and  said,  "Madam,  will  you  look  at  what  is  upon  that 
spoon  in  your  hand?" 

"Why,"  she  said,  "it  is  the  same  'V.  C.'" 

"Yes,  and  all  those  things  were  stolen." 

The  lady  rose  up,  as  if  she  were  choking,  and  went  out. 

That  is  a  story  of  today. 

GOD   IS   HEARING  THE    CRY  OF   THE   STRANGER  TURNED   FROM  HIS 

RIGHT. 

Do  you  think  that  God  is  not  hearing  the  cry  of  the  stranger 
who  is  turned  aside  from  his  right? 

Look  at  the  stranger  from  Africa,  whom  you  brought  here 
and  sold  and  bought  like  a  chattel.  Has  he  not  been  turned 
aside  from  his  right? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — They  are  shot,  hanged  and  burned  alive  today 
with  more  than  the  tortures  of  the  Inquisition.  The  President 
at  Washington  expresses  his  regret,  but  he  does  not  punish 
the  murderers.  Would  they  not  be  promptly  punished  if  they 
murdered  a  Senator? 


ZfON'S  HOLY  WAR.  253 

Will  not  God  avenge  these  poor  African  strangers,  vilest 
of  criminals  though  they  be,  who  are  turned  aside  from  their 
right,  to  have  a  fair  trial  and  a  judicial  sentence? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — He  will  avenge  them  speedily. 

I  warn  the  land  in  which  we  dwell.  I  warn  the  Church.  I 
warn  the  State.  I  warn  you  as  part  of  that  great  body  politic 
that  we  must  do  our  part  to  create  a  conscience  in  this  land 
that  will  care  for  every  Widow  and  every  Fatherless  one 
and  protect  every  Stranger.  Although  I  know  not  what 
awaits  us,  yet  I  do  know  that  in  the  days  to  come,  God 
will  show  Zion  the  way  to  do  something  very  practical. 
(Amen.) 

We  are  doing  it  according  to  our  light  now. 

I  oftentimes  think  on  a  Wednesday  afternoon  in  Central 
Zion  Tabernacle,  as  one  after  another  comes  to  me  with  their 
griefs  and  their  sorrows,  seeking  for  my  decision  and  direction 
as  God's  minister,  that  it  more  resembles  a  judgment  seat  than 
anything  else.  Many  and  many  a  time  I  exert  the  influence 
and  the  power  in  my  hands  to  lay  hold  of  the  wretches  who 
are  stealing  and  destroying  and  bring  them  to  Repentance.  I 
make  them  do  justly.  I  threaten  them  with  the  strong  arm  of 
the  law,  if  they  will  not  yield  to  the  persuasions  of  the 
Gospel. 

Why  should  I  not? 

Does  not  the  law  of  the  land  and  the  law  of  God  require 
that  the  widow,  the  fatherless  and  the  stranger  shall  be  pro- 
tected? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — The  day  is  fast  coming  when  the  earth  must  be 
judged  by  those  who  are  good  and  holy. 

It  is  written,  "The  Saints  shall  judge  the  earth." 

CALL. 

Righteousness,  Peace  and  Joy  are  the  three  divisions  of  the 
Kingdom  of  God. 

All  who  desire  that  Righteousness  and  Peace  and  Joy,  stand 
and  ask  God  for  it.  I 

All  who  desire  to  be  righteous  in  God's  sight,  stand.  Air 
who  desire  to  be  unclean,  sit  still.  All  those  who  desire  to  do 
right,  and  have  the  Peace  and  Joy  of  God,  stand.  (With  a  few 
exceptions,  the  entire  audience  arose.) 

PRAYER  OF   CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me 
power  to  do  right,  no  matter  what  it  costs.  Give  me  Thy  Holy  Spirit  that 
I  may  be  strong  to  confess;  to  restore;  to  do  right  to  all  whom  I  have 
wronged.  Forgive  me  for  Jesus'  sake,  and  give  me  Thy  Holy  Spirit  that 


254  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

my  spirit,  soul  and  body  may  be  clean  in  His  Name.     (All  repeat  tne 
prayer,  clause  by  clause,  after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  you  mean  that? 

Answer—"  Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Will  you  do  it? 

Answer— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — May  God  help  you. 

The  meeting  was  then  closed  with  the  following 

PRAYER   AND   BENEDICTION. 

Our  Father,  hear  the  cry  of  the  very  poor  tonight  who  cry  unto  Thee 
out  of  their  poverty  and  their  distress ;  strangers  whose  right  has  been 
turned  away.  Hear  the  cry  of  the  widow  and  the  fatherless  in  Thy  holy 
habitation,  Thou  Husband  of  the  widow,  Thou  Father  of  the  fatherless,  and 
stretch  forth  Thy  hand  to  save.  May  Zion  go  forth  determined  to  win  men 
and  women  to  Thee,  to  help,  with  all  the  God-given  powers,  that  they  may 
be  saved,  healed  and  cleansed,  and  get  to  heaven  for  Jesus'  sake. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil.  And  may  the  very  God 
of  Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  spirit 
and  soul  and  body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of 
our  Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it; 
the  grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  Love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you, bless 
you,  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


ZION'S    HOLY    WAR. 


SERMON— ZION'S    WITNESS    AGAINST    THOSE    WHO    LEAVE 

GOD  OUT. 


THE  final  sermon  of  the  series  of  the  wonderful  "Witnessing 
Sermons,"  on  Malachi,  third  chapter,  fifth  verse,  which 
have  compelled  the  attention  of  the  world,  was  delivered  by 
the  General  Overseer  at  the  South  Side  Zion   Tabernacle  on 
Lord's  Day  evening,  November  26,  1899. 

The  clause  of  the  text,  "and  fear  not  Me,  saith  Jehovah  of 
Hosts,"  was  the  basis  for  the  significant  subject,  "Zion's  Wit- 
ness Against  Those  Who  Leave  God  Out."  Beginning  at  the 
Nation,  and  dealing  in  turn  with  the  Church,  the  family  and 
the  individual,  the  man  of  God  forced  home  the  mighty  denun- 
ciations of  the  sin  of  leaving  out  God,  the  Maker  of  all  things 
and  the  Giver  of  every  good  and  perfect  gift.  It  was  shown 
that  Secretism,  in  denying  Christ,  the  Son,  also  left  out  the 
Father.  A.  w.  N. 

South  Side  Zion  Tabernacle,  Lord's  Day  Evening,  November  26,  1900. 

The  services  were  opened  by  singing  Hymn  No.  44: 

Oh,  wondrous  Name,  by  prophets  heard 

Long  years  before  His  birth; 
They  saw  Him  coming  from  afar, 

The  Prince  of  Peace  on  earth. 

CHORUS — The  Wonderful!    The  Counsellor! 

The  Great  and  Mighty  Lord! 
The  Everlasting  Prince  of  Peace! 
The  King,  the  Son  of  God! 

Dr.  Dowie  then  read  from  the  Inspired  Word  of  God  in  the 
Book  of  the  Prophet  Malachi,  third  chapter;  also  from  the 
tenth  Psalm,  closing  with  the  prayer: 

May  God  bless  His  Word. 
INTRODUCTION    OF   OVERSEER    WILLIAM    HAMNER    PIPER. 

It  is  my  great  pleasure  tonight  to  introduce  to  you  my 
friend  and  brother,  the  Rev.  William  Hamner  Piper,  who 
has  been  Overseer  of  the  Christian  Catholic  Church  in  Ohio 
for  the  greater  part  of  a  year,  and  has  been  with  us  for  the 
last  five  years,  well  nigh. 

God  has  used  him  in  this  ministry. 

He  is  still  Overseer,  but  Qverseer-at-Large. 

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ZION'S   HOLY    WAR.  257 

I  have  directed  him  to  take  charge  of  this  Tabernacle  and 
of  the  work  on  the  South  Side  of  the  city,  in  cooperation  with 
Elder  Cabeen  and  others  who  may  be  appointed  here.  I 
introduce  Overseer  Piper  to  you. 

May  God  bless  him. 

Audience — "  Amen." 

Dr.  Dowie — Overseer  Piper  will  lead  us  in  prayer. 

Prayer  was  then  offered  by  Overseer  Piper. 

The  announcements  were  then  made  by  Dr.  Dowie. 


ZION'S    WITNESS    AGAINST    THOSE    WHO    LEAVE 

GOD    OUT. 


Dr.  Dowie  then  delivered  the  following  address: 
INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight,  be  profitable  unto  this  people,  and  unto  all  to  whom  these 
words  shall  come,  in  this  and  every  land,  in  this  and  all  the  coming  time, 
until  Jesus  come,  for  His  sake.  Amen. 

In  the  course  of  this  witnessing  for  God,  I  have  for  two 
months  preached  on  an  average  more  than  once  a  day  upon 
one  verse  in  the  third  chapter  of  the  Book  of  the  Prophet 
Malachi,  the  fifth  verse. 

TEXT. 

I  will  be  a  Swift  Witness  against  the  Sorcerers,  and  against  the  Adul- 
terers, and  against  False  Swearers;  and  against  those  that  Oppress  the 
Hireling  in  his  wages,  the  Widow,  and  the  Fatherless,  and  that  turn 
aside  the  Stranger  from  his  right,  and  fear  not  Me,  saith  Jehovah  of 
Hosts. 

I  speak  tonight  especially  upon  the  last  clause,  "and  fear 
not  Me,  saith  Jehovah  of  Hosts." 

With  that  I  will  place  the  words  which  I  read  to  you  in  the 
tenth  Psalm  and  the  fourth  verse: 

The  wicked,  through  the  pride  of  his  countenance,  will  not  seek  after 
God.  God  is  not  in  all  his  thoughts. 

The  Revised  Version  puts  it  differently: 

The  wicked,  in  the  pride  of  his  countenance,  saith,  He  will  not  require  it. 
All  his  thoughts  are,  "  There  is  no  God." 

How  many  men  will  go  down  to  the  Board  of  Trade,  in 
La  Salle  Street  and  Jackson  Boulevard,  tomorrow,  whose  hearts 
are  full  of  the  thought  of  God? 

How  many  men  flock  into  the  factories  and  workshops, 
to  climb  upon  their  stools  in  the  counting  houses,  or  take 
their  places  in  the  salesrooms  and  at  desks  in  all  kinds  of 
business,  with  this  thought:  Oh  God,  help  me  today  to 
have  Thy  thought,  the  thought  of  Thyself  in  everything? 


258  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

The  Book  of  God  says  that  the  wicked  in  the  pride  of  their 
countenance  will  not  seek  after  God;  that  God  is  not  in  all 
their  thoughts.  They  say,  "We  can  do  what  we  please.  God 
will  not  require  it."  All  their  thought  is,  "There  is  no 
God." 

Truly  that  inspired  Word  is  right  when  it  says: 

The  fool  hath  said  in  his  heart,  There  is  no  God. 
They  are  corrupt,  they  have  done  abominable  works. 

To  leave  God  out  is  a  terrible  thing. 

Now,  Zion's  Witness  must  be  forever  against  those  who 
leave  God  out. 

How  much  is  God  in  the  daily  life? 

How  much  ought  He  to  be  in  it? 

How  much  are  you  decided  that  He  shall  in  future  be 
in  it  ? 

I  am  going  to  begin  where  I  feel  I  ought  to  begin,  at  the 
very  foundations,  and  I  will  speak  plainly  concerning  "leaving 
God  out  "of  the  Constitution  of  this  Nation. 

THE     NAME    OF     GOD    IS     NOT     FOUND    IN     THE    CONSTITUTION     OF 
THE   UNITED   STATES    OF   AMERICA. 

It  is  not  even  in  the  Oath  of  Office  of  the  President  of  the 
United  States. 

I  begin  there.  One  of  the  great  national  crimes  is  that  you 
have  not  given  God  any  place  in  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States. 

The  answer,  perhaps,  of  some  is:  Why  should  God  be  In 
the  Constitution? 

To  whom  does  the  earth  belong? 

Voices— "God." 

Dr.  Dowie — Who  made  it? 

Voices—"  God." 

Dr.  Dowie — 

The  earth  is  the  Lord's,  and  the  fulness  thereof; 
The  world,  and  they  that  dwell  therein. 
For  He  hath  founded  it  upon  the  seas, 
And  established  it  upon  the  flood. 

Surely  the  owner  of  a  house  has  a  right  to  be  recognized  by 
those  whom  he  places  within  it,  and  to  whom  he  gives  such  a 
large  bounty  as  the  unrestricted  use  of  that  house,  and  all  the 
good  and  useful  and  beautiful  things  which  that  house  con- 
tains. 

Surely,  if  you  in  your  kindness  permit  a  guest  to  remain 
within  your  hospitable  walls;  if  you  feed  and  even  clothe  him, 
and  protect  him — surely  you  have  a  right  to  expect  that  he 
will  not  turn  upon  you  and  say,  "This  house,  and  all  it  con- 
tains, is  mine.  I  do  not  recognize  you  in  it,  although  you 
made  it;  although  you  toiled  to  make  and  maintain  it,  I 


Z 'ION'S  HOLY   WAR.  259 

do    not  recognize  you,  although  you   gave    me  everything  I 
have." 

GOD  GIVES  MAN  EVERY  GOOD  GIFT;  THEREFORE  MAN  SHOULD 
RECOGNIZE  HIM. 

That  is  the  condition  with  man  in  God's  world. 

God  made  it,  and  as  George  Herbert  beautifully  wrote: 

Man  is  all  symmetry, 
Full  of  proportions,  one  limb  to  another, 
And  all  to  all  the  world  besides : 
Every  part  may  call  the  farthest,  brother: 
For  head  with  foot  hath  private  amity, 
And  both  with  moons  and  tides. 

For  us  the  winds  do  blow; 

The  earth  doth  rest,  heaven  move,  and  fountains  flow. 
Nothing  we  see  but  means  our  good, 
As  our  delight,  or  as  our  treasure: 
The  whole  is,  either  our  cupboard  of  food, 
Or  cabinet  of  pleasure. 

The  stars  have  us  to  bed ; 

Night  draws  the  curtain,  which  the  Sun  withdraws: 
Music  and  light  attend  our  head, 
All  things  unto  our  flesh  are  kind 
In  their  descent  and  being;  to  our  mind 
In  their  ascent  and  cause. 

Nature  is  everywhere  smiling  in  our  face.  She  produces 
by  God's  command  everything  good  in  sea,  air  and  land.  God 
is  the  Maker,  the  Giver  and,  in  Christ,  the  Redeemer  of  man- 
kind. 

Is  He  never  to  be  acknowledged  in  His  own  world? 

Shame  that  any  nation  should  organize  and  establish  a 
Constitution  in  which  God  is  left  out!  This  Nation  must 
retrace  its  steps.  One  of  the  great  amendments  to  the  Con- 
stitution which  is  impending  and  must  come  at  last  will  be  that 
which  recognizes  the  Names  of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son, 
and  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  one  Eternal  Triune  God. 

The  Executive,  the  Judiciary  and  the  Legislative  must  rule 
in  God's  Name.  As  long  as  they  leave  God  out,  this  Nation 
will  find  that  the  Devil  is  mightily  in  it,  from  the  lowest  to  the 
highest. 

What  is  one  of  the  great  causes  of  political  trouble  in  this 
country? 

Because  God  is  left  out. 

Is  it  enough  that  a  blind  chaplain  shall  rise  in  the 
Senate  and  offer  prayer?  That  is  provisionary,  adapted  to 
the  political  conditions  of  the  time.  The  chaplain  has  to 
be  a  Republican,  if  there  is  a  Republican  majority  in  power, 
and  goes  out  with  all  the  other  "rascals "  when  the  Demo- 
crats come  in. 


260  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

Is  that  prayer?  Is  that  recognizing  God?  Prayers  that 
strictly  follow  party  lines? 

GOD  IS  LEFT  OUT  IN  THE  LAWS. 

They  are  not  made  in  the  Name  of  God.  God's  Book  is 
not  considered  in  the  making  of  these  laws.  Christian  senti- 
ment has  of  course  molded  the  minds  of  large  numbers  of 
the  legislators. 

I  have  two  coins  in  my  pocket.  They  were  given  to  me 
today.  They  are  both  of  the  same  weight.  They  are  both  of 
the  same  metal  and  they  both  have  the  same  inscription,  but 
the  one  says: 

aIN   GOD   WE   TRUST." 

The  other  is  a  blank  where  these  words  occur,  and  leaves 
God  out. 

That  is  very  much  like  the  condition  of  things  in  the  United 
States. 

Pious  statements  are  made  as  to  trusting  in  God,  especially 
when  there  is  any  trouble  around. 

I  have  always  noticed  that  in  times  of  danger  at  sea  or  in 
times  of  flood  the  most  godless  people  will  cry  out,  "God  help 
us." 

They  are  wonderfully  pious,  and  they  pray  in  wonderful 
earnestness  when  they  get  into  trouble. 

It  is  a  contemptible  business.  Why  do  you  not  say  your 
prayers  in  fine  weather?  Why  do  you  leave  it  to  the  hour  of 
trouble,  pain  and  impending  death  to  cry,  "God  help  us,"  and 
leave  God  cut  all  the  rest  of  the  time? 

This  arises  because  the  Nation  has  left  God  out  largely, 
and  because  the  Church  with  all  its  statements  about  having 
God,  first,  last  and  all  the  time,  is  simply  an  assembly  of  down- 
right hypocrites,  in  nine  cases  out  of  ten. 

Take  the  "Masonic"  Episcopal  Church  for  instance  (the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church). 

Its  bishops  most  solemnly  charge  the  candidates  for  the 
ministry  that  wherever  they  go  they  are  to  take  the  Name  of 
Jesus  with  them.  The  same  Bishop,  especially  if  his  name  is 
Fowler — and  I  suppose  about  two-thirds  of  the  bishops  are  like 
him — enters  the  very  next  night,  perhaps,  the  Masonic  Lodge 
where  the  Name  of  Jesus  Christ  is  never  mentioned.  When 
they  read  from  the  Bible,  the  Name  of  Jesus  is  cut  out  where 
it  should  be  mentioned. 

THE  CHURCHES  ARE  OFTEN  GUILTY  OF  LEAVING  GOD  OUT. 

The  Church,  therefore,  hypocritically  says  to  the  young 
man,  "Take  the  Name  of  Jesus  Christ  everywhere."  Advised 
by  their  own  example,  he  enters  the  Masonic  Lodge,  with  a 
hoodwink  over  his  eyes,  a  cable  tow  around  his  neck,  stripped 


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of  all  his  clothing,  and  clad  in  a  dirty  old  flannel  suit,  with  one 
shoe  off  and  one  shoe  on.  He  is  dragged  along  until  he  bows 
at  the  altar  of  the  Worshipful  Master,  the  emblem  on  whose 
apron  is  the  sun.  He  kneels  first  in  the  east,  because  the  sun 
rises  there,  and  he  goes  around  to  the  south  and  the  west,  for 
that  is  the  course  of  the  sun.  His  actions  are  those  of  a  sun- 
worshiper.  He  then  enters  upon  a  series  of  vows  and  covenants 
in  which  Jesus  Christ  is  never  mentioned. 

They  leave  God  out. 

God  is  left  outside  the  Masonic  Lodge,  because  he  who 
does  not  honor  the  Son  of  God  has  denied  the  Father. 

No  one  knoweth  the  Son,  save  the  Father;  neither  doth  any  know  the 
Father,  save  the  Son,  and  he  to  whomsoever  the  Son  willeth  to  reveal  Him. 

There  is  no  other  way  by  which  humanity  can  get  to  the 
Father,  except  by  Jesus  Christ  the  Son  of  God;  the  Way,  the 
Truth,  and  the  Life.  When  you  leave  Jesus  Christ  out, 
you  leave  out  the  Father,  and  you  leave  out  the  Holy 
Ghost. 

I  therefore  charge  it  upon  the  churches  that  they  are  full  of 
hypocrisy;  ordaining  men  to  the  ministry,  and  then  by  their 
practice  leading  them  into  secret  assemblies  where  God  is  left 
out. 

They  say  God  will  not  require  it.  All  their  thoughts  are, 
There  is  no  God. 

Do  you  wonder,  then,  that  God  does  not  go  into  their  busi- 
ness? 

God  is  not  in  all  their  thoughts.     They  leave  God  out. 

Look  at  business  as  it  is  conducted  today.  (See  Cartoon 
on  page  156.) 

OPPRESSION    RESULTS    FROM    LEAVING   GOD    OUT. 

There  is  the  mammon  monster,  the  juggernaut  of  our  time, 
with  the  whip  of  greed  lashing  the  laboring  classes  into  line  to 
pull  the  car  of  the  Standard  Oil  Thief;  and  the  car  of  the  Trusts 
who  have  left  God  out,  and  who  have,  therefore,  left  man 
out. 

On  the  other  hand,  see  how  the  poor  oppress  the  poor. 

God's  Word  says  that — 

A  needy  man  that  oppresseth  the  poor 

Is  like  a  sweeping  rain  which  leaveth  no  food. 

Both  classes  leave  God  out.  The  walking  delegates  are 
filled  with  unholy  devices,  deceitful  devices  to  destroy.  Even 
when  the  needy  speak,  they  are  turned  away.  When  the  needy 
man  says,  "I  must  work.  My  family  need  bread.  If  I  cannot 
get  four  dollars,  I  will  take  three,"  this  oppressor  replies,  "You 
cannot  work  except  we  allow  you." 

The  walking  "delegoat"  is  the  representative  of  murder 
and  anarchy.  He  says,  "We  will  shed  your  blood.  We  will 


262  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

break  your  head.  We  will  trample  you  to  death  if  you  do  not 
do  what  we  tell  you." 

They  leave  God  out.     That  is  the  trouble. 

If  God  were  in  business,  the  rich  man  would  hear  God  say, 
"He  that  oppresseth  the  poor  reproacheth  his  Maker."  He 
would  hear  God  say,  "Go  to  now,  ye  rich;  weep  and  howl  for 
your  miseries  that  are  coming  upon  you.  .  .  .  Behold  the 
hire  of  your  laborers  .  .  .  which  is  of  you  kept  back  by 
fraud,  crieth  out:  and  the  cries  of  them  that  reaped  have 
entered  into  the  ears  of  the  Lord  of  Sabaoth." 

You  will  find  that  your  gold  and  your  silver  are  rusted. 

THERE  ARE  MANY  WHO  LEAVE  GOD  OUT  OF  THE  HOME. 

Can  you  wonder  that  God  is  left  out  of  the  home?  How 
many  of  you  begin  the  day  with  God?  How  many  of  you  take 
down  your  Bible  and  pray  with  your  son  and  daughter  before 
they  go  out  into  a  wicked  world,  full  of  temptation  and  sin? 

How  many  of  you  raise  the  morning  song?  How  many 
tell  the  little  ones  around  your  morning  table  of  the  God  who 
gave  you  rest  and  brought  you  light  and  joy  and  gladness,  and 
has  given  you  food,  and  strength  to  go  forth  to  labor?  How 
many  of  you  pray  that  you  may  be  protected  that  day,  and 
may  come  back  to  wife  and  babies,  and  that  God  will  protect 
them  whilst  you  are  winning  their  bread? 

How  many  have  God  in  their  homes? 

How  many  of  you  who  profess  to  be  Christians  are  sending 
out  your  sons  and  daughters  from  prayerless  homes  into  a 
godless  world? 

Can  you  wonder  if  they  become  a  prey  to  the  World,  the 
Flesh  and  the  Devil?  They  see  you  a  Christian  on  the  Sun- 
day, and  they  see  you  a  careless,  godless  man  or  woman  on  the 
Monday,  Tuesday,  Wednesday,  Thursday,  Friday  and  Satur- 
day. Then  you  put  on  your  Christianity  with  your  Sunday 
clothes,  and  leave  it  behind  you  when  you  don  your  working 
clothes,  you  hypocrites! 

God  is  left  out  of  the  home.  Hence  your  daughters  make 
friends  among  young  men  whom  you  do  not  warn  them  against. 
Diamonds  are  in  their  shirt  fronts,  and  the  Devil  is  in  their 
hearts,  but  you  have  no  power  to  save  your  daughters. 

Their  hearts  have  never  been  taught  the  piety  of  Holy  Liv- 
ing. God  has  been  left  out. 

Oh,  what  an  awful  thing  to  leave  God  out!  How  sad  the 
lot  of  the  little  one  who  has  never  known  the  Voice  of  the  lov- 
ing Jesus ;  who  has  never  seen  the  Babe  of  Bethlehem,  and  the 
little  Boy  who  talked  in  the  Temple  and  was  busy  about  His 
Father's  business!  He  has  never  seen  the  Man  Christ  Jesus 
taking  care  of  little  Josie,  and  little  Simeon,  and  little  Jude, 
and  little  Jimmy  in  the  home  of  Nazareth,  the  four  sons  and 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  263 

the  three  daughters  of  Joseph  and  Mary.  It  is  beautiful  to 
see  Jesus  there. 

He  has  never  seen  the  Oldest  Son,  our  great  Elder  Brother, 
take  the  babies  one  by  one  as  they  came  and  bless  them.  The 
children  of  godless  homes  have  never  seen  Jesus.  They  have 
not  known  that  the  healing  of  his  seamless  dress  was  by  their 
beds  of  pain. 

You  leave  Him  out. 

You  leave  Him  out,  and  you  let  the  World,  the  Flesh  and 
the  Devil  in.  Your  children  have  gone  to  the  Devil. 

How  could  it  be  otherwise? 

You  have  left  God  out  of  your  heart.  He  has  stood  there, 
knocking,  in  spirit.  He  knocks  now  and  say^: 

Behold,  I  stand  at  the  door  and  knock :  if  any  man  hear  My  Voice  and 
open  the  door,  I  will  come  in  to  him,  and  will  sup  with  him,  and  he  with  Me. 

Are  you  going  to  leave  Him  out  still? 

God  forbid,  for  the  pierced  hand  still  knocketh,  and  beneath 
the  crowned  head  beam  the  patient  eyes,  so  tender,  of  thy 
Saviour  waiting  there.  Let  Him  in. 

CALL. 

All  who  wish  God  to  be  in  everything;  in  their  hearts,  their 
homes,  and  all  their  lives,  stand  up  and  tell  Him  so. 

PRAYER   OF    CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I  am. 
Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Come  into  my 
heart,  to  my  home,  to  my  business,  to  my  politics,  to  all  my  thoughts.  Take 
possession  of  all.  Come,  Oh  God,  and  take  possession  of  the  world,  and 
reign  and  rule  by  Jesus  Christ  Thy  Son.  Help  me  to  witness  against  those 
who  leave  God  out,  and  may  I  find  Thee  everywhere.  Take  me  every- 
where, that  where'er  I  go  and  whate'er  I  do,  Thou  mayest  be  in  it  all,  bless- 
ing it,  guiding  it,  and  bringing  me  at  last  to  Thyself,  for  Jesus'  sake.  (All 
repeat  the  prayer,  clause  by  clause,  after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

Did  you  mean  that? 
Answer — "Yes." 
Dr.  Dowie — Will  you  live  it? 
Answer — "Yes." 

The  meeting  was  then  closed  by  singing,  after  which  Dr.. 
Dowie  pronounced  the  following 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil.  And  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 
grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide  ;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you,  bless 
you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


ZION'S    HOLY    WAR. 


SERMON— ZION'S  CRY  IN  THE  MIDNIGHT  HOUR, 


THE  Truth  of  God  concerning  these  latter  days,  especially 
with  reference  to  the  Preparation  which  God's  Church 
must  make  for  the  Coming  of  her  King,  was  proclaimed  at  Cen- 
tral Zion  Tabernacle,  Lord's  Day  afternoon,  December  3,  1899, 
by  the  General  Overseer. 

With  prophetic  voice  he  set  forth  the  interpretation  of  the 
Parable  of  the  Ten  Virgins,  and  clearly  demonstrated  the  neces- 
sity of  God's  people  seeking  unto  Him  for  the  Oil  of  the  Holy 
Ghost  in  order  that  the  Divine  Light  of  a  Divine  Life  might 
shine  forth  through  an  inspired  spirit,  a  pure  soul,  and  a  healthy 
body,  for  the  enlightment  of  humanity. 

An  audience  of  nearly  three  thousand  people  drank  in  the 
words  of  God's  Messenger  with  the  deepest  heart  interest.  At 
the  close  nearly  all  arose,  and  with  humility  asked  God  to  give 
to  them  the  Oil  of  the  Holy  Spirit  that  they  might  be  ready  at 
the  coming  of  the  Bridegroom.  A.  w.  N. 


Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  Lord's  Day  Afternoon,  December  3,  1899. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing  Hymn  No.  205: 
Awake,  my  soul,  stretch  every  nerve, 

And  press  with  vigor  on; 
A  heavenly  race  demands  thy  zeal, 

And  an  immortal  crown. 

The  General  Overseer  then  read  from  the  twenty-fifth  chap- 
ter of  the  Gospel  according  to  St.  Matthew,  closing  with  the 
words: 

May  God  bless  His  Word. 

Prayer  was  then  offered,  after  which  the  announcements 
were  made  and  the  tithes  and  offerings  received. 


ZION'S  CRY  IN  THE  MIDNIGHT  HOUR. 


INVOCATION. 


Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight  and  profitable  unto  this  people,  and  unto  all  to  whom 

War— 265 


266  ZION'S  HOLY^  WAR. 

these  words  shall  come,  in  this  and  every  land,  oh  Lord,  my  Strength  and 
my  Redeemer. 

I  read  from  the  Revised  Version,  Isaiah  40:9: 

TEXT. 

O  thou  that  tellest  good  tidings  to  Zion,  get  thee  up  into  the  high 
mountain;  O  thou  that  tellest  good  tidings  to  Jerusalem,  lift  up  thy  voice 
with  strength;  lift  it  up,  be  not  afraid;  s?y  unto  the  cities  of  Judah,  Behold, 
your  God ! 

And  in  the  twenty-fifth  chapter  of  the  Gospel  according  to 
St.  Matthew,  sixth  verse: 

But  at  midnight  there  is  a  cry,  Behold  the  Bridegroom !  Come  ye  forth 
to  meet  Him. 

Amidst  all  the  conflict  and  the  strife,  I  have  ever  sought 
from  God  the  grace  to  see  the  battle-field  every  day  from  a 
still  higher  position  on  the  mountain  of  a  holier  life.  I  have 
desired  to  so  speak  that  Zion  everywhere  should  hear  the  Good 
Tidings,  for  it  is  the  Midnight  Hour. 

The  darkness  deepens,  and  yet  the  light  increases. 

The  Egyptian  hosts  are  pursuing  God's  people  as  they 
break  the  chains  of  Egyptian  bondage.  It  is  all  darkness  as  at 
the  Red  Sea  long  ago,  when  Moses  stretched  forth  the  rod  of 
faith  and  the  waters  were  divided  so  that  the  children  of  God 
might  pass  through  on  foot. 

There  shone  along  that  pathway  through  the  Sea  the 
Shekinah  Light  of  God's  own  Presence.  Behind  it  was  all 
darkness,  so  that  the  Egyptians  following  were  so  entangled 
together  they  could  not  get  near  the  people  of  God. 

All  that  night,  while  the  light  was  shining  on  the  pathway 
through  the  sea,  and  the  Israelites  were  passing  from  Egypt 
into  liberty,  the  hosts  of  hell  were  unable  to  touch  them. 

You  know  the  rest  of  the  story,  how  when  the  morning 
dawned  every  one  of  the  Israelitish  host  was  on  the  other  side 
It  was  just  as  the  morning  dawned,  apparently,  that  the  last  of 
them  passed  through  and  the  Egyptians,  seeing  this  pathway, 
rushed  into  it.  They  perished  in  the  very  pathway  where 
God's  people  were  saved.  The  wicked  cannot  tread  the  Way 
of  God. 

HISTORY   REPEATS   ITSELF. 

God's  people  are  being  called  out.  Many  of  God's  people 
are  very  foolish.  Some  of  them  are  very  wise.  Some  of  them 
are  wholly  awake.  The  widest  awake  of  us  sometimes  slum- 
ber, while  many  of  God's  people  go  to  sleep. 

The  distinction  between  the  two  classes  in  the  Kingdom 
of  Heaven  is  not  that  one  is  saved  and  the  other  is  lost,  but 
that  one  is  wise  and  the  other  foolish;  that  the  one  has  oil  in 
the  vessel  with  his  lamp,  and  the  other  has  not;  that  one  is 
ready  to  meet  the  Bridegroom,  and  the  other  is  not;  that  the 
one  goes  in  with  his  Lord  into  the  marriage  and  the  others  are 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  267 

left  behind,  and  when  they  would  enter,  they  cannot,  for  the 
door  is  shut. 

The  parable  does  not  say  that  they  are  lost,  but  it  does  say 
that  they  are  left  behind,  for  it  is  too  late. 

What  does  the  parable  mean? 

t  means  just  what  it  says.  It  refers  to  the  coming  of  the 
Lord  in  the  clouds  to  call  His  own  out  of  the  world;  not  the 
coming  of  the  Lord  to  reign  in  His  Millennial  glory. 

That  is  another  thing  which  comes  later. 

The  coming  of  the  Lord  in  the  clouds,  the  hour  when  He 
descends  with  the  Voice  of  the  Archangel,  with  the  Trumpet 
of  God  to  awaken  the  sleepers,  to  take  out  the  prepared  who 
have  the  Oil  in  their  vessels,  is  the  time  referred  to  in  this 
parable.  Paul,  the  apostle,  sets  this  forth  most  beautifully  in 
I  Thessalonians  4:15-18,  where  he  says: 

For  this  we  say  unto  you  by  the  Word  of  the  Lord,  that  we  that  are 
alive,  that  are  left  until  the  coming  of  the  Lord,  shall  in  no  wise  precede 
them  that  are  fallen  asleep.  For  the  Lord  Himself  shall  descend  from 
heaven,  with  a  shout,  with  the  voice  of  the  Archangel,  and  with  the  Trump 
of  God:  and  the  dead  in  Christ  shall  rise  first:  then  we  that  are  alive,  that 
are  left,  shall  together  with  them  be  caught  up  in  the  clouds,  to  meet  the 
Lord  in  the  air:  and  so  shall  we  ever  be  with  the  Lord.  Wherefore  com- 
fort one  another  with  these  words. 

When  that  takes  place  there  will  be  a  large  number  of  God's 
people  unprepared  who  will  not  be  caught  up  to  meet  the  Lord 
in  the  air. 

They  will  be  left  behind.  They  will  have  to  pass  through 
the  Great  Tribulation,  which  will  come  upon  all  flesh  before 
Christ  comes  back  with  the  ransomed  hosts  and  establishes  His 
Kingdom  and  reigns  a  thousand  years. 

We  may  be  nearer  the  taking  out  of  the  world  of  the  ran- 
somed than  we  know.  It  is  not  possible  to  dogmatize  success- 
fully upon  this  matter,  but  there  is  a  wonderful  concensus  of 
opinion  and  conviction  in  all  who  are  nearest  God,  that  the 
"Time  is  at  hand." 

By  that  I  do  not  mean  today  or  tomorrow. 

My  own  conviction  is  that  there  are  still  many  years  before 
us,  as  men  count,  before  that  time  comes.  If  it  were  not,  I 
should  not  make  the  plans  I  do.  Why  should  I  toil  to  build 
Zion  City,  if  I  believed  Christ's  coming  for  the  Wise  was  very 
near? 

I  see  that  certain  prophecies  are  being  fulfilled  in  the  estab- 
lishment of  Cities  of  God  throughout  the  world.  I  see  that 
Zion  must  be  brought  together.  In  the  unity,  the  catholicity 
and  in  the  absolute  cooperation  of  all  of  God's  people  with  all 
their  powers,  we  shall  realize  the  oneness  of  the  spirit  and  the 
oneness  of  the  body.  Zion  shall  be  prepared  for  the  evangel- 
ization of  the  world  with  a  Gospel  which  has  never  been 
preached  since  apostolic  days. 


268  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

Two-thirds  of  the  Gospel  have  been  lost  until  this  century. 
It  is  a  Gospel  not  only  of  Salvation  for  the  spirit,  but  of 
Redemption  for  the  whole  being.  The  soul  and  the  body  shall 
be  cleansed  and  occupied  by  God.  The  world  will  have  an 
opportunity  of  hearing  the  Everlasting  Gospel  of  the  Kingdom 
of  God  which  has  been  concealed  from  it  by  the  apostate 
churches  in  all  the  ages  and  now,  namely,  Salvation,  Healing, 
and  Holy  Living  in  the  Power  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  through  Faith 
in  Jesus  Christ  alone. 

THE   LORD    COMES   NOT   AS    SOON   AS   SOME    THINK. 

I  do  not  believe  the  coming  of  the  Lord  is  as  imminent  as 
some  think.  If  the  wise  virgins  are  taken  out  of  the  world, 
and  the  foolish  only  are  left,  the  work  of  proclaiming  "  to  every 
nation"  the  Full  and  True  Gospel  could  not  be  done. 

That  work  must  be  done  before  the  coming  of  the  Lord.  I 
see  that  work  could  be  done,  and  perhaps  will  be  done  within 
a  certain  period. 

I  am  going  to  name  a  certain  period.  I  know  that  my 
words  are  listened  to  with  great  attention,  and  are  received 
with  very  much  reverence,  and  I  therefore  must  be  very  careful. 

I  see  the  glorious  possibilities  in  these  days  when  so  many 
things  can  be  wrought  in  the  world  of  politics,  in  the  changing 
of  the  map  of  the  world;  when  so  many  things  can  be  and  are 
being  wrought,  so  that  nations  are  born  almost  in  a  day. 

The  time  will  come  when  the  reproduction  of  the  voice  of 
a  speaker  like  myself,  speaking  now  in  tones  which  you  all 
hear,  and  in  which  you  are  intensely  interested,  will  be  heard 
clearly  in  every  Tabernacle  of  Zion  throughout  the  world. 
(Amen.) 

I  mean  the  exact  tone  of  that  voice;  the  exact  words.  I  do 
not  mean  the  written  page.  But  through  the  wonderful  power 
of  the  phonograph  Zion  shall  have  the  whole  world  for  an 
audience. 

That  is  what  is  coming — when  a  word  spoken  from  the 
headquarters  of  Zion  can  be  reproduced  throughout  the  world. 

Swift  communications  are  opening  up  all  the  earth,  laying 
bare  the  secrets  of  Siberia,  opening  the  deserts  of  Africa  and 
Australia  and  Asia.  Men  are  girding  the  whole  earth  with 
these  steel  bands  which  will  enable  us  very  soon  to  send  Zion's 
Messengers  from  Cairo  to  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope  right 
through  central,  equatorial  Africa. 

That  power  will  enable  us  to  do  the  same  on  every  Conti- 
nent as  it  is  possible  today  on  this  Continent.  It  will  also 
enable  us,  therefore,  to  reach  the  world. 

Our  officers  even  now  can  be  reached  in  a  moment  by 
telephonic  communication,  or  in  an  hour  or  so  by  telegraphic 
communication. 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  269 

I  received  cablegrams  recently  which,  according  to  sun 
time,  actually  reached  me  an  hour  before  they  left,  meaning, 
of  course,  that  they  outstripped  the  sun.  Those  cablegrams 
had  come  under  the  Ocean  and  over  the  mountains  ahead  of 
the  sun. 

A  wonderful  thing! 

This  Church,  which  today  numbers  its  thousands  and  tens 
of  thousands,  three  years  and  nine  months  ago  was  not  known, 
for  it  did  not  exist  as  an  organization.  Today  it  is  the  subject 
of  discussion  in  every  land  beneath  the  sun. 

Our  coming  is  striking  terror  on  the  mission  field  in  China 
and  in  Japan,  in  Europe,  in  London,  everywhere.  The  alarmed 
leaders  of  many  apostate  churches  are  crying,  "That  fellow 
Dowie  is  coming.  Let's  get  ready  for  him."  (Amen.) 

Yes,  we  are  coming.     Set  your  houses  in  order. 

Now  when  I  see  all  these  things  which  God  has  wrought 
and  is  working,  and  what  He  can  work,  I  just  take  my  pencil 
and  a  sheet  of  paper,  and  I  sit  down  and  work  it  out  as  an 
arithmetical  problem.  Then  I  see  that 

THE    WORLD  CAN  BE  PREPARED  FOR  CHRIST'S  COMING  IN  TWENTY- 
FIVE    YEARS. 

I  can  see  that  the  work  of  God  in  establishing  Zion  Cities 
throughout  the  world,  and  in  preparing  Jerusalem  for  the  com- 
ing of  the  King  to  the  Zion  there,  can  all  be  done  in  twenty- 
five  years. 

I  therefore  feel  that  it  is  well  worth  while  putting  in  these 
twenty-five  years  of  work.  I  hope  that  it  may  please  the  Lord 
to  permit  me  to  live  them.  (Amen.) 

Although  old  and  weary,  I  should  love  to  live  in  this  taber- 
nacle of  clay  until  the  Lord  calls  me  to  go  without  dying. 
(Amen.) 

I  hate  death.     I  do  not  fear  it. 

He  "that  hath  the  Power  of  Death  is  the  Devil,"  and  I  love 
to  think  of  the  other  thought  that  Christ  hath  "  abolished  death." 

I  shall  sleep.  I  want  never  to  see  death.  I  should  love  to 
go  without  dying  in  any  sense,  but  that  shall  be  as  God  shall 
will:  for  my  life  is  at  His  absolute  disposal. 

I  say  to  Zion  everywhere  today,  that  it  seems  to  me  that 
within  a  quarter  of  a  century  we  shall  be  within  sight,  if  we  do 
not  actually  reach  the  time,  when  the  Wise  Virgins  have  been 
prepared  for  the  coming  of  the  Bridegroom. 

THE    PREPARATION    FOR    THE    BRIDEGROOM'S    COMING. 

I  desire  to  make  it  plain  to  you. 

There  is  just  one  thing  suggested  as  the  evidence  of  the 
wisdom  of  the  wise,  and  another  thing  suggested  as  an  evi- 
dence of  the  folly  of  the  foolish  virgins. 


2  70  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

They  are  none  other  than  virgins.  They  are  all  Christians. 
I  recognize  the  Christianity  of  multitudes  of  people  who  differ 
with  me  ecclesiastically,  for  they  do  not  know  any  better. 
They  would  not  differ  with  me  if  they  knew  better. 

That  is  my  presumption,  perhaps,  but  it  is  my  confident 
belief,  if  it  is  a  presumption. 

I  never  knew  a  man  who  knew  me  intimately  and  personally 
who  was  ever  unfriendly  to  me,  if  he  were  a  good  man. 

I  never  knew  a  man  who  knew  me  intimately  or  personally 
who  ever  was  unfriendly  to  me  unless  that  man  was  a  hypo- 
crite, a  liar,  and  a  filthy-hearted  man  who,  for  his  own  purposes, 
was  seeking  affiliation  with  Zion,  and  when  he  was  found  out 
and  had  to  be  removed,  reviled  me. 

I  have  said  all  I  want  to  say  about  that  matter  in  LEAVES  OF 
HEALING,  Volume  VI,  Number  6. 

The  leader  of  this  ridiculous  so-called  secession  which  is 
alleged  to  have  taken  place  from  Zion  is  such  a  man.  He  was 
expelled  from  Zion  because  he  wanted  a  divorce  which  the 
Scriptures  would  not  permit,  and  dared  to  continue  attentions 
which  no  gentleman  or  Christian  should  offer  to  a  lady,  unless 
he  could  marry  her.  Zion  will  never  permit  such  a  man  to  be 
a  minister  within  her  borders.  (Amen.) 

If  such  a  man  as  that  is  to  lead  a  secession  from  Zion,  then 
I  am  very  grateful  to  God  that  the  only  kind  of  a  secession 
that  can  be  led  away  from  Zion  is  a  secession  of  those  who, 
like  him,  have  all  gone  to  the  Devil.  He  can  lead  no  other 
kind  of  a  secession. 

Now  I  come  back  to  my  point.  It  may  be  a  presumption, 
but  I  believe  that  it  is  a  God-given  conviction  that  the  condi- 
tion of  these  two  classes  is  easily  set  forth  and  is  shown  in 
Zion. 

The  Virgins  are  all  true  Christians,  because  that  word  virgin 
indicates  purity. 

They  all  desire  to  meet  the  Lord. 

ALL   TRUE    CHRISTIANS    DESIRE   TO    MEET   THEIR   LORD. 

If  anybody  does  not  wish  to  meet  the  Lord,  it  is  because  he 
is  ashamed  to  meet  Him.  He  is  afraid,  and  there  is  something 
wrong  which  has  not  been  put  right. 

All  Christians  are  willing  to  meet  their  King,  and  the  whole 
ten  go  forth;  five  of  these  are  wise,  and  five  are  foolish. 

The  foolish  like  the  wise  have  torches. 

A  torch  has  attached  to  it  an  oil  receiver. 

You  know  a  good  deal  about  that,  for  some  of  you  have 
done  lots  of  that  fool  torchlight  procession  business  for  the 
Devil  about  election  time. 

What  is  the  torch?  What  is  the  vessel?  And  what  is  the 
oil? 


ZION'S   HOLY    WAR.  2*]\ 

They  all  have  the  light  which  God  has  kindled  in  their 
hearts.  They  all  see  Jesus  as  their  Saviour.  They  have  all 
been  cleansed  in  spirit.  They  are  Christians  in  spirit.  But 
one-half  of  them  have  learned  something  more.  They  have 
learned  that  man  is  a  tripartite  being,  and  that  he  has  not  only 
a  spirit,  but  he  has  a  soul,  and  he  has  a  body.  They  have 
learned  that  God  in  Christ  and  by  the  Holy  Ghost  saves  not 
only  the  spirit,  but  the  animal  soul  and  the  living  body,  and 
fills  them  with  His  Spirit  in  every  part  of  their  being. 

They  therefore  are  the  wise.  The  spiritual  enlightenment 
which  God  has  given  to  them  is  the  evidence  of  a  new  birth. 

They  are  all  born  of  God,  but  the  Wise  have  the  Holy  Spirit 
in  the  Vessels  of  their  Bodies.  This  Light  is  to  shine  in  the 
living  bodies,  living  souls  and  living  spirits  of  redeemed  men. 

The  spiritual  light  i  s  to  shine  through  the  animal  life, 
through  the  physical  life,  so  that  a  man  or  woman  in  Christ 
shall  be  a  burning  and  shining  light,  wherever  they  go. 

This  is  the  condition  of  the  Wise.  They  therefore  seek  from 
God  before  they  start  out  to  meet  their  Lord,  that  the  Holy 
Spirit  shall  fill  not  only  their  spirits,  but  their  souls  and  their 
bodies;  so  that  there  may  be  a  great  supply  of  the  Divine 
Presence  and  Power  in  their  being. 

This  is  the  teaching  of  Scripture: 

Your  bodies  are  designed  to  be  Temples  of  God. 

If  therefore  thine  eye  be  single,  thy  whole  body  shall  be  full  of  light. 
But  if  thine  eye  be  evil,  thy  whole  body  shall  be  full  of  darkness. 

Light,  light,  light!  Do  you  know  anything  of  that  Light? 
"Oh,  you  mean  some  abstract  idea  of  light.  Do  you  mean 
intellectual  light? 

No,  I  do  not. 

"Do  you  mean  physical  light?" 

No,  I  do  not. 

"Do  you  mean  psychical  light?" 

No,  I  do  not. 

"What  do  you  mean?" 

I  mean  God.  God  is  Light,  and  in  Him  is  no  darkness  at 
all.  You  must  have  God  Himself  within  you — the  Life  of  which 
is  Light. 

The  Life  is  the  Light,  not  the  light  the  life. 

In  Him  was  Life;  and  the  Life  was  the  Light  of  men. 

If  we  have  Him,  we  have  that  Light,  because  we  have  that 
Life. 

Friends,  this  is  the  teaching  of  Zion. 

You  must  have  the  Spirit  of  Life  in  your  spirit,  in  your  soul 
and  in  your  body. 

You  must  part  with  your  natural  and  receive  a  supernatural. 

You  must  part  with  the  physical  and  receive  a  spiritual. 


272  ZION'S   HOLY   WAR. 

You  must  part  with  the  intellectual  and  receive  a  Divine 
Wisdom,  which  is  all  implied  in  that  word  "Oil,"  because 

THE    OIL    IS    THE    HOLY   GHOST. 

That  Oil  must  be  that  which,  when  the  Breath  of  God 
breathes  upon  it,  and  the  Fire  of  God  is  imparted  to  it,  will 
burst  out  into  the  blaze  of  glory  which  will  illuminate  your 
whole  life  and  the  lives  of  all  humanity. 

This  is  the  parable.  The  virgins  who  are  wise  believe  not 
only  in  Salvation,  but  in  Healing  and  in  Holy  Living. 

They  believe  that  spirit,  soul  and  body  were  included  in 
their  redemption.  They  receive  the  Holy  Ghost,  and  in  the 
Power  of  the  Holy  Spirit  they  go  forth. 

There  are  a  great  many  who  know  nothing  about  the  Holy 
Ghost. 

They  want  to  go  home  to  dinner.  They  would  rather  have 
pig.  They  would  rather  have  liquor.  They  do  not  desire  to 
be  clean.  They  do  not  desire  to  be  wide  awake. 

Zion  must  be  pure.  Zion  must  be  clean.  The  Holy  Oil 
will  not  flow  in  the  bodies  of  an  unclean  people.  Therefore 
you  must  be  healed.  Therefore  you  must  be  cleansed. 

You  will  not  be  ready  for  the  Coming  of  the  King  until  your 
souls  and  bodies  as  well  as  your  spirits  are  cleansed. 

Hence  I  demand,  as  God's  Messenger,  that  you  shall  hear 
the  Voice  which  tells  these  Good  Tidings  to  Zion,  Behold,  your 
God!  Behold,  the  Bridegroom! 

That  is  Zion's  Midnight  Cry.  Behold  in  Jesus  Christ  the 
Bridegroom.  Go  to  your  Bridegroom  for  all  that  you  need. 

You  are  poor.  You  are  ignorant.  You  are  blind.  You  are 
naked,  and  only  your  Bridegroom  can  cleanse  you,  clothe 
you,  bless  you,  and  prepare  you  to  be  pure  and  holy — His 
Bride. 

When  through  His  grace,  by  the  Power  of  the  Holy  Ghost, 
you  are  thus  prepared,  then  your  Bridegroom  will  come  to  meet 
you  in  Visible  Presence,  and  take  you  out  of  the  world,  and  the 
door  will  be  shut. 

Hence  my  cry:  the  Cry  of  Zion  at  the  Midnight  Hour,  is, 
Get  Ready! 

Get  ready,  not  omy  your  spirit,  but  your  soul,  and  your 
body. 

Let  nothing  stand  between  you  and  getting  ready. 

If  your  wife  stands  in  the  way,  leave  her  behind.  If  she  is 
determined  to  look  back  to  Sodom,  it  is  a  pity  that  she  will, 
but  let  her  stay.  "  Remember  Lot's  wife." 

Look  not  in  all  the  plain  for  any  place  where  you  can  stay. 

The  Cry  is  going  out,  "Tarry  not  in  all  the  plain!" 

If  you  have  a  wife  or  a  daughter,  a  son  or  a  husband  who  is 
not  fleeing  to  the  mountains,  go  you  ahead.  God  will  not  con- 


Z ION'S  HOLY   WAR.  273 

demn  you.  You  have  no  right  to  be  left  behind,  because  they 
will  not  come. 

Do  all  you  can  to  bring  them,  but  do  not  stop. 

If  they  say,  "Wait.  Let  me  go  back.  Let  me  see  whether 
there  is  not  a  way  for  me  to  go  back  into  the  world  again,  into 
Sodom,  and  into  sin,"  do  not  wait. 

JESUS  SAID,  "REMEMBER  LOT'S  WIFE." 

She  looked  back,  and  she  never  was  able  to  look  any  other 
way,  for  the  rain  of  that  awful  tempest  overwhelmed  her,  and 
she  stood  there  transformed,  shining  in  the  sunlight  when  the 
storm  had  passed,  like  a  pillar  of  salt. 

It  was  her  death-winding  sheet.  Her  unbelief  encompassed 
her  with  that  death  that  will  come  to  every  one  who  looks  back. 

I  do  not  dare  to  look  back.  I  do  not  desire  to  look  back, 
except  as  the  year  closes  just  to  take  a  brief  retrospect,  and 
say,  Thank  God  for  all  that  He  has  done. 

I  desire  to  look  forward  and  to  Go  Forward. 

I  want  tonight  to  point  to  that  Pathway  which  lies  between 
these  waters,  and  to  tell  you  there  is  no  other  way  in  which 
you  can  find  the  Promised  Land  on  earth  or  in  heaven  but  by 
going* right  down  there  through  that  sea.  If  you  are  afraid, 
stay  where  you  are  and  the  Egyptians  will  have  you. 

They  have  a  right  to  you,  and  when  they  have  taken  you, 
may  they  make  you  work  hard  in  their  tread-mills.  I  will  never 
pity  you.  I  will  never  pity  any  who  willingly  draw  back  into 
perdition.  They  deserve  the  doom  which  God  utters — "  Per- 
ditumr 

Now  once  more  the  Pathway  lies  between  the  raging  waters 
of  the  sea  Zion's  Cry  to  you  in  this  Midnight  Hour  is,  "Yon- 
der, beyond  on  the  other  side  of  the  Sea,  stands  your  God." 

Why  do  I  know  it?  Because  the  Cloudy  Pillar  has  passed 
through  the  Sea,  and  it  is  shining  on  the  other  side.  You  must 
follow  where  God  leads  in  the  Pillar  of  Cloud  by  day,  and  the 
Pillar  of  Fire  by  night. 

CALL. 

All  who  are  willing  to  follow  where  God  leads,  stand  and 
tell  Him  so.  (Apparently  all  arose.)  Thank  God.  I  believe 
that  is  every  one. 

PRAYER   OF   CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I  am. 
Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be.  Prepare  me  by  Thy  Spirit  that  my  light  may 
not  go  out;  that  I  may  be  ready  when  the  Bridegroom  comes;  that  my  soul 
and  my  body,  as  well  as  my  spirit,  may  be  illuminated  and  be  quickened 
by  the  Holy  Ghost.  Prepare  me  to  obey  Thee ;  to  go  with  the  ransomed 
hosts  over  that  Pathway  through  the  Sea,  through  the  Desert  into  the  Prom- 
ised Land,  believing  that  Thy  Life  is  mine  on  earth,  and  mine  in  heaven. 

Give  me  grace  wherein  I  have  sinned  against  others.  Make  me  truly 
sorry.  May  I  truly  repent,  fully  restore  and  do  right  to  all  men,  trusting  in 
Jesus  only  as  the  Way,  as  the  Truth,  and  as  the  Life:  for  He  is  God's  Way. 


274  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

Help  me  now  to  be  with  Thy  people  in  their  communion  on  earth,  in  their 
toils  on  earth,  and  in  their  reward  in  heaven,  for  Jesus'  sake.  (All  repeat 
the  prayer,  clause  by  clause,  after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

Did  you  mean  it? 

Answer — "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Will  youjive  it? 

Answer— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — May  God  help  you. 

RECEPTION     OF    NEW   MEMBERS,    ORDINATION    OF    NEW   OFFICERS, 
AND    ORDINANCE    OF   LORD'S   SUPPER. 

The  General  Overseer  then  gave  the  right  hand  of  fellow- 
ship to  nearly  one  hundred  candidates  for  membership  in  the 
Christian  Catholic  Church.  Nine  officers  took  ordination  vows 
and  received  the  laying  on  of  hands  for  the  Holy  Spirit,  for 
the  work  of  the  ministry. 

Then  over  two  thousand  Christians  partook  of  the  Lord's 
Supper,  the  General  Overseer  administering  the  ordinance. 

The  meeting  was  then  closed  with  the  following 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil.  And  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  perserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  dp  it;  the 
grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide  ;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you,  bless 
you  and  keep  you  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


ZION'S   HOLY  WAR. 


PRELUDE— ZION'S    WITNESS    AGAINST     AN    UNCLEAN,    UN- 
GODLY AND  CRIMINAL  PRESS.     SERMON— ZION'S 
WITNESS  AGAINST  THE    MODERN  SCRIBES 
OF  THE  DAILY  PRESS. 


ZION  and  her  General  Overseer  and  the  newspaper  press  of 
Chicago  have  been  continuously  at  war  for  nearly  ten  years. 
The  fighting  was  begun  by  the  papers.  Their  columns  have 
reeked  with  filth  and  falsehood  against  Zion  and,  with  only  one 
notable  exception,  have  studiously  avoided  mention  of  a  single 
one  of  Zion's  countless  good  deeds,  or  a  solitary  fact  regarding 
the  great  work  in  saving,  healing,  and  cleansing  humanity 
which  God  is  doing  through  Zion. 

The  Press  suppresses  truth,  as  well  as  generates  falsehood, 
concerning  Zion. 

Put  thus  upon  the  defensive  during  the  greater  part  of  this 
fight,  Zion  has  merely  met  the  attacks  and,  by  the  power  of 
God's  Spirit,  has  overwhelmingly  repelled  them.  So  complete 
have  been  her  victories  that  the  Press  is  now  very  largely  dis- 
credited by  the  more  intelligent  of  its  readers,  not  only  in  its 
reports  regarding  Zion,  but  also  throughout  its  pages. 

But  the  time  had  come  when  Zion  must  go  forward  in 
aggressive,  offensive  warfare  against  this  great  evil.  Hence, 
during  the  second  week  in  December,  the  General  Overseer 
spoke  on  an  average  of  once  each  day,  in  the  various  Zion 
Tabernacles  throughout  the  city,  exposing  the  unutterable  filth, 
the  absolute  unreliability,  the  actual  thieving,  and  even  com- 
plicity in  murder,  with  which  the  Press,  both  secular  and  "reli- 
gious," was  guiltily  connected,  especially  by  the  use  which  they, 
for  money,  permitted  tricksters  and  criminals  to  make  of  their 
news  and  advertising  columns. 

It  was  a  splendid  series  of  addresses,  opening  the  eyes  of 
the  people  to  crimes  which  are  committed  every  day  in  the 
advertising  columns  of  the  Press.  In  the  reports  which  follow, 

War-275 


276  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

they  have  been  greatly  condensed,  only  the  main  facts  stated 
in  each  address  being  given,  many  of  the  General  Overseer's 
illustrations  and  explanations  being,  necessarily,  omitted. 
A.  w.  N. 

MORNING    SERVICE. 


West  Side  Zion  Tabernacle,  Lord's  Day  Morning,  December  10,  1899. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing  Hymn  No.  425. 

The  thirty-fifth  chapter  of  Isaiah,  the  Psalm  of  Salvation, 
Healing  and  Holy  Living,  which  is  known  and  loved  by  all  in 
Zion  and  has  been  repeated  in  concert  upon  many  occasions 
by  thousands  upon  thousands,  was  repeated  together  by  all 
present.  Prayer  was  offered  by  Dr.  Dowie,  at  the  close  of  which 
the  Scripture  lesson  was  read  from  the  twenty-third  chapter  of 
Matthew.  Dr.  Dowie  said  : 

We  have  felt  in  this  Three  Months'  Holy  War  that  we  did 
well  to  confine  ourselves  largely  to  attacks  upon  things  which 
were  evil. 

DESTRUCTION    OF    THE     BAD    MUST    PRECEDE    CONSTRUCTION    OF 

THE   GOOD. 

Some  day  when  the  story  is  told  of  what  God  has  wrought 
far  and  wide  through  these  attacks,  it  will  be  seen  that  this 
pulling  down  of  the  strongholds  of  sin  and  Satan  has  been  the 
means  of  setting  free  vast  numbers  of  people  who  have  been 
in  the  Devil's  prison.  The  only  way  to  build  up  the  Kingdom 
of  God  is,  first  of  all,  to  destroy  the  kingdom  of  the  Devil. 

The  Devil  only  desires  to  be  let  alone. 

He  cries  out  in  Chicago,  "Leave  us  to  make  all  the  drugs 
we  like,  and  to  poison  the  people  just  as  we  please!  If  you 
won't  smoke  yourself,  why  don't  you  let  a  fellow  alone,  and 
let  him  have  all  the  tobacco  he  wants,  and  all  the  liquor  he 
wants?  Let  us  alone."  That  cry,  "Let  us  alone,"  is  always 
the  Devil's  cry.  But  we  do  not  propose  to  let  the  Devil  alone. 
When  we  are  attacking  the  newspapers,  we  are  doing  the  Lord's 
work.  Hence  we  are  going  after  the  Devil's  printers.  We  have 
a  distinct  plan  in  all  this.  We  destroy  only  to  build,  and  we 
will  one  day  build  a  clean  newspaper  press. 

The  tithes  and  offerings  were  then  received. 


ZION'S  WITNESS  AGAINST  THE  MODERN  SCRIBES 
OF  THE  DAILY  PRESS. 


Dr.  Dowie  then  delivered  the  following  discourse: 

INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight  and  profitable  unto  all  here,  oh  Lord,  my  Strength  and 
my  Redeemer. 


ZION'S   HOLY    WAR.  277 

The  thirteenth  verse  of  the  twenty-third  chapter  of  the  Gos- 
pel according  to  St.  Matthew: 

TEXT. 

But  woe  unto  you,  Scribes  and  Pharisees,  hypocrites!  because  ye  shut 
the  Kingdom  of  Heaven  against  men. 

Zion  would  have  no  witness  at  all  against  the  daily  Press  if 
it  were  not  shutting  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven  against  men. 

Like  a  great  many  other  things  which  have  been  good,  and 
are  now  bad,  the  daily  press  is  the  outcome  in  reality  of  the 
work  of  the  Church.  Amongst  the  first  books  which  were 
printed  were  portions  of  the  Bible,  and  the  desire  to  read  God's 
Word,  on  the  part  of  the  common  people,  gave  a  great  impetus 
to  improved  and  less  costly  means  of  printing. 

The  Devil  quickly  takes  hold  of  a  thing  which  is  good  and 
perverts  it.  The  Devil,  seeing  the  tremendous  power  that  the 
Press  would  be,  has  today  captured  it  to  such  an  extent  that, 
while  the  Word  of  God  is  still  multiplied,  the  daily  newspaper 
Press  has  become  the  engine  of  the  Devil  to  a  terrific  extent. 
The  Devil  is  ruining  many,  spirit,  soul  and  body,  through  the 
news,  and  especially  the  advertising,  columns  of  the  Press. 

THE    PRESS    IN    LEAGUE   WITH    CRIMINALS. 

In  Madison  Street,  here  on  the  West  Side  of  Chicago,  is 
the  very  paradise  of  fortune-tellers,  clairvoyants,  chattel  mort- 
gage sharks,  and  money-lenders.  The  newspaper  Press  is  in 
league  with  these  people. 

If  I  were  the  mayor  of  this  city,  I  would  take  the'se  fellows 
by  the  scruff  of  the  neck  and  put  them  in  prison  and  make 
them  answer  to  criminal  charges,  for  aiding  and  abetting 
thieves  and  impostors,  for  a  money  consideration. 

The  Press  gets  a  division  of  the  spoils  from  all  these  scoun- 
drels, in  return  for  advertising  them. 

The  Press  in  itself  is  not  a  bad  thing. 

When  we  get  to  Zion  City  God  will  help  us  to  issue  a  daily 
paper  in  due  time.  I  have  not  the  slightest  doubt  that  a  daily 
paper,  written  in  the  interests  of  the  people,  and  written  by 
godly  men,  a  clean  paper,  will  command  the  interest  of  hun- 
dreds of  thousands  of  clean  men  and  women  in  this  city  and 
land. 

There  are  in  this  city,  probably,  at  least  three-fourths  of  a 
million  people  to  whom  the  daily  newspaper,  German  and  Eng- 
lish, is  their  Bible.  Hundreds  of  thousands  never  read  the 
Bible,  never  pray,  and  never  praise  God. 

Think  of  the  poor,  little,  miserable  boys  selling  papers, 
smoking  cigarettes,  cursing  and  swearing;  little  thieves,  seven, 
eight,  nine  and  ten  years  of  age.  They  feed  upon  the  papers. 
They  have  just  enough  education  to  read,  and  they  feed  on  that 
filth.  Pray  for  us  in  this  matter.  It  is  a  large  matter. 


278  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

I  now  want  everyone  of  you  who  have  given  your  hearts  to 
God  and  will  reconsecrate  yourselves  to  God,  and  those  who 
have  not  given  themselves  to  God,  to  arise  and  ask  God  to  give 
you  the  grace  you  need. 

All  who  desire  to  give  themselves  fully  to  God,  stand. 
(Apparently  all  arose.) 

PRAYER   OF    CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me  Thy 
Holy  Spirit,  that  I  may  do  right  to  any  whom  I  have  wronged ;  that  I  may 
confess  my  sin  and  put  my  sin  away,  and  that  I  may  be  delivered  from  sin 
for  the  sake  of  Jesus,  the  Lamb  of  God  who  taketh  away  the  sin  of  the  world. 
Take  away  my  sin.  Give  me  a  clean  heart  and  a  right  spirit,  that  I  may 
serve  Thee,  and  Thee  alone,  for  Jesus'  sake.  (All  repeat  the  prayer,  clause 
by  clause,  after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

Will  you  live  it? 

Audience — "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Then  God  will  bless  you. 

The  meeting  was  then  closed  with  the  following 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil.  And  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 
grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you,  bless 
you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


AFTERNOON    SERVICE. 


SERMON— WHO    CONTROLS     THE     NEWSPAPERS— GOD     OR 

THE  DEVIL? 


Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  Lord's  Day  Afternoon,  December  10,  1899. 

A  very  large  congregation  was  assembled. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing  Hymn  No.  116: 

There's  a  royal  banner  given  for  display 

To  the  soldiers  of  the  King; 
As  an  ensign  fair  we  lift  it  up  today; 

While  as  ransomed  ones  we  sing. 

CHORUS — Marching  on!  Marching  on! 

For  Christ  count  ev'ry thing  but  loss; 
And  to  crown  Him  King,  toil  and  sing, 
'Neath  the  banner  of  the  cross. 

The  General  Overseer  read  from  the  Inspired  Word  of  God 
in  the  Gospel  according  to  St.  Matthew,  the  twenty-third  chap- 
ter, and  two  verses  in  the  twenty-fourth,  commenting  upon 
them.  He  closed  with  the  prayer: 

May  God  bless  the  Words  of  His  Son. 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  279 

Prayer  was  then  offered,  the  announcements  were  made,  and 
the  tithes  and  offerings  received. 


WHO     CONTROLS     THE     NEWSPAPERS— GOD     OR 
THE     DEVIL? 


Dr.  Dowie  then  delivered  the  following  address: 

INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight,  be  profitable  unto  this  people,  and  unto  all  to  whom 
these  words  shall  come,  in  this  and  every  land,  in  this  and  all  the  coming 
time,  till  Jesus  come,  for  His  sake.  Amen. 

Dr.  Dowie  read  from  the  forty-fourth  to  the  forty-ninth 
verses  of  the  eighth  chapter  of  the  Gospel  according  to  St. 
John. 

These  words  I  place  in  the  front  of  all  I  have  to  say,  laying 
down  the  Divine  principle  that  Jesus  laid  down  when  he  said: 

TEXT. 

Every  one  that  committeth  sin  is  the  bondservant  of  sin.  .  .  .  Why 
do  ye  not  understand  my  speech? 

The  question  today  in  opening  this  series  of  attacks  upon 
the  Ungodly  and  Unclean  and  Criminal  Newspaper  Press  is 
this:  "Who  controls  the  newspapers — God  or  the  Devil?" 

Audience— "The  Devil?" 

Dr.  Dowie — You  have  stated  your  answer  before  I  had 
stated  my  side  of  the  question. 

All  who  in  this  room  really  believe  that  it  is  the  Devil  who 
controls  the  Newspaper  Press  of  Chicago,  stand  to  their  feet. 
(Apparently  all  arose.)  That  is  a  remarkable  sight.  I  do 
not  think  I  need  preach  this  sermon  at  all,  so  far  as  you  are 
concerned. 

Everyone  in  this  room  who  believes  that  God  controls  the 
newspapers,  stand  up.  (Two  arose.) 

Do  you  believe  God  controls  the  newspapers? 

Voice— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Then  the  Lord  have  mercy  upon  your  igno- 
rance, and  enable  me  to  remove  it.  (Applause.) 

The  fundamental  question  is,  What  is  or  is  not  the  proof 
that  a  thing  is  controlled  by  God  or  by  the  Devil? 

WHAT    CONSTITUTES   A   PROOF    OF    CONTROL    OF    GOD   OR   OF    THE 

DEVIL? 

There  is  no  doubt  about  how  to  answer  if  we  believe  in  the 
Divine  Principle  which  has  been  laid  down  by  our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  in  the  words  which  I  read  to  you: 

Why  do  ye  not  understand  My  speech  ?  Even  because  ye  cannot  hear 
My  word.  Ye  are  of  your  father  the  Devil,  and  the  lusts  of  your  father  it 


280  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

is  your  will  to  do.  He  was  a  murderer  from  the  beginning,  and  stood  not 
in  the  truth,  because  there  is  no  truth  in  him.  When  he  speaketh  a  lie,  he 
speaketh  of  his  own:  for  he  is  a  liar,  and  the  father  thereof. 

The  large  morning  and  evening  newspapers  of  Chicago  are 
the  Tribune \  the  Inter  Ocean,  the  Journal,  the  Times- Herald,  the 
Chronicle,  the  Record,  the  Daily  News,  and  the  Evening  Post. 
As  for  the  attempted  resurrected  Dispatch,  it  is  beneath  con- 
tempt. It  was  killed,  it  was  buried,  and  sold  off  at  auction.  I 
prophesied  it  would  be.  Its  editor  was  sent  to  prison  for  two 
years.  A  new  little  viper  has  appeared  under  the  old  one's 
name,  which  perished  when  its  proprietor  was  in  the  peniten- 
tiary at  Joliet. 

If  every  proprietor  of  these  nine  papers  which  I  have  named 
got  his  deserts — I  will  not  except  even  one  editor  who  has  been, 
occasionally,  my  defender  and  my  friend — they  would  be  in  the 
penitentiary  today. 

But  if  I  were  to  take  all  the  Press  at  large,  and  not  alone 
the  newspaper  Press,  I  would  be  compelled  to  say  that  there  is 
another  side  to  this  question;  a  very  beautiful  other  side.  I 
hope  to  deal  with  it  by  and  by. 

Do  not  misunderstand  me.  My  conflict  is  'not  with  the 
printing  press.  The  printing  press  is  all  right,  and  especially 
the  printing  press  which  turns  out  LEAVES  OF  HEALING. 
(Laughter.)  They  are  first-class  Miehle  presses. 

After  comparing  all  the  printing  presses  which  I  nave  been 
able  to  see  throughout  the  world,  I  have  come  to  the  conclusion 
that  the  very  best  printing  press  manufactured  in  the  world  is 
the  invention  and  the  manufacture  of  a  Chicago  man. 

THE    PRESS    IS    ASHAMED    TO    OWN    GOD. 

But   to  return  to  the  newspaper  Press.     If  the  Press  were 
controlled  by  God,  would  it  be  ashamed  to  own  God? 
Audience— "No." 
Dr.  Dowie — 

Jesus,  my  Lord,  I  own  Thy  Name ; 

Thy  Name  is  all  my  boast; 
Nor  wilt  Thou  put  my  soul  to  shame, 

Nor  let  my  hope  be  lost. 

Ashamed  of  Jesus?  That  dear  Friend 
On  whom  my  hopes  of  heaven  depend? 

No.  When  I  blush  be  this  my  shame, 
That  I  no  more  revere  His  Name. 

Ashamed  of  Jesus?     Yes,  I  may, 

When  I've  no  guilt  to  wash  away; 
No  tear  to  wipe,  no  good  to  crave, 

No  fears  to  quell,  no  soul  to  save. 

Till  then — nor  is  my  boasting  vain — 

Till  then  I  boast  a  Saviour  slain, 
And  O,  may  this  my  glory  be, 

That  Christ  is  not  ashamed  of  me. 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  281 

Does  the  Press  of  Chicago  own    the    Lord  Jesus  Christ? 

Audience—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Does  it  recognize  the  supremacy  of  Jesus 
Christ,  the  Son  of  God? 

Audience— "No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Does  it  profess,  even  for  a  moment,  to  write  in 
accordance  with  God's  Holy  Gospel? 

Andience— "  No."     v 

Dr.  Dowie — Does  it  for  one  single  moment  even  tell  its 
readers  that  if  they  will  not  serve  God  and  do  right,  they  can- 
not understand  how  to  live  and  how  to  win  eternal  victory  in 
life's  great  battlefield?  No!  No!!  No!!! 

THE     PRESS     OF     CHICAGO     IS     THE     MERE     CREATION     OF     THE 
COUNTING-HOUSE. 

Political  parties  are  not  the  dominating  influence  in  the 
Press. 

I  know  one  man  in  a  certain  town  who  is  the  proprietor  of 
two  newspapers;  the  one  is  the  Democratic  newspaper,  and  the 
other  is  the  Republican.  (Laughter.)  And  these  papers  pre- 
tend to  abuse  each  other.  There  are  many  other  similar  in- 
stances, even  in  this  city. 

The  political  parties  are  but  the  constantly  shuffled  and 
very  dirty  cards  of  the  political  gambler,  who  is  simply  asking 
what  will  be  for  his  party's  present  advantage.  The  political 
principles  of  the  newspapers  are  the  principles  of  those  of 
whom  Jesus  said,  "Ye  seek  Me,  not  because  ye  saw  signs,  but 
because  ye  ate  of  the  loaves  and  were  filled."  These  principles 
are  seven  in  number — five  loaves  and  two  fishes. 

I  do  not  hesitate  to  say  that  there  is  not  a  newspaper  in 
this  city  which  will  contradict  me  flatly  tomorrow  morning,  in 
the  statement  that  the  Press  is  the  mere  creation  of  the  man 
who  has  the  money-bags. 

The  Press  is  the  mere  creation,  therefore,  of  Mammon.  Of 
all  the  dirty  devils  who  ever  came  from  hell,  the  spirit  of 
Mammon,  which  will  sell  everything  for  gold,  is  the  worst. 
(Amen.) 

This  is  the  crowning  curse  of  the  Press :  that  it  is  simply  the 
creation  of  Mammon. 

The  man  who  for  money  has  established  a  newspaper  in 
Chicago  is  not  dependent  for  the  financial  support  of  his  news- 
paper upon  the  people.  He  may  be  in  a  measure  dependent 
upon  them  for  his  circulation,  but  that  is  only  in  a  measure. 

After  a  paper  has  held  a  certain  position  for  a  time,  it  be- 
comes the  medium  of  communication  between  people,  whether 
its  editorial  policy  is  liked  or  not.  Then  it  will  be  maintained 
for  that  purpose,  regardless  of  its  political  complexion.  The 
people  use  such  papers  as  they  do  street  cars,  from  sheer  neces- 


282  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

sity,  not  from  regard  to  the  principles  of  the  owners  in 
either. 

Who  can  tell  in  this  city  what  the  political  principles  of  the 
Record  and  Daily  News  are? 

These  two  papers  are  owned  by  the  same  man  Lawson,  a 
Congregationalist,  the  biggest  liar  that  curses  Chicago.  His 
editors  and  his  staff  are  the  biggest  liars  that  have  ever  cursed 
Chicago,  unless  it  may  be  that  the  Inter  Ocean  has  one  on  about 
a  par  with  them.  The  lies  they  have  told  concerning  Zion  are 
too  numerous  to  count. 

The  newspapers  do  not  lead  the  people ;  they  do  not  attempt 
to  lead  the  people,  except  to  lead  them  astray,  as  they  do  about 
Zion.  They  only  wait  to  see  in  which  direction  the  people  are 
going,  then  they  go  that  way.  If  the  majority  came  towards 
Zion  tomorrow,  they  would  discharge  every  one  of  these  fellows 
who  spoke  against  Zion,  and  put  in  an  editorial  to  this  effect: 

a  We  deeply  regret  the  mistakes  which  have  been  made  by  our  editorial 
writers  and  reporters  hitherto  concerning  that  very  remarkable  man,  John 
Alexander  Dowie,  who  is  an  honor  to  Chicago."  (Applause.) 

Then  they  would  pitch  in  and  praise  me  unti'l  I  should  be 
ashamed  of  it.  I  do  not  think  they  will  for  a  while,  because  I 
have  a  whip  for  their  backs,  and  I  shall  use  it  freely. 

Just  let  me  say  in  passing  that  I  should  consider  the  praise 
of  such  papers  would  be  a  disgrace  to  myself. 

THE  ADVERTISERS  THE  REAL  POWER  WHICH  CONTROLS  THE 

PRESS. 

The  real  power,  then,  is  not  merely  in  the  money  which 
establishes  the  paper  or  the  money  which  buys  the  copies  of 
that  paper  upon  the  streets.  Are  you  under  the  delusion  that 
the  one  cent  which  you  pay  for  the  Daily  News  is  any  consid- 
eration at  all  to  its  proprietors?  They  do  not  care  a  snap 
about  it.  They  have  to  pay  to  the  agents  who  handle  the  paper 
about  half  a  cent.  Probably  all  they  get  out  of  it  is  less  than 
one-quarter  of  a  cent. 

Do  you  think  that  a  quarter-cent  pays  for  the  printing  of 
sixteen,  or  twenty,  or  twenty-four  pages  of  paper? 

Do  you  think  that  it  pays  for  the  reporters,  editors,  and  for 
the  telegrams  that  come  from  all  parts  of  the  world? 

Two  or  three  hundred  thousand  quarter-cents  is  only  from 
five  hundred  to  seven  hundred  and  fifty  dollars.  What  a  pitiful 
sum  it  is  compared  to  the  enormous  expenditure!  It  would 
not  pay  for  the  paper,  let  alone  printing  and  all  the  editorial 
and  reportorial  work. 

It  is  the  advertising  columns  which  pay.  Therefore,  the 
large  dry  goods  houses  of  this  city  are  among  the  first  to  con- 
trol the  papers.  Marshall  Field,  the  Fair,  and  the  Jews  all 
down  State  Street  control  the  papers. 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  283 

They  go  to  these  papers  and  pay  for  sometimes  more  than 
an  entire  page  a  day. 

A  journal  published  in  the  interests  of  the  papers  of  this 
country  said  the  other  day  that  the  Record  and  the  Daily  News, 
with  a  combined  circulation  of  four  hundred  thousand,  charged 
eight  hundred  dollars  per  day  for  one  page. 

At  eight  hundred  dollars  for  a  page  for  six  days  in  the  week, 
the  advertising  bill  would  be  about  four  thousand  eight  hundred 
to  five  thousand  dollars  a  week.  For  fifty-two  weeks  in  the 
year  it  would  be  $260,000. 

Do  not  such  advertisers  control  that  paper?  The  editor 
must  do  exactly  what  these  advertisers  want. 

ADVERTISERS  HAVE  CALLED  A  HALT  ON  THE  ABUSE  OF  ZION  BY 

THE  PRESS. 

The  business  offices  of  some  of  the  papers  have  been  hear- 
ing lately  from  the  advertisers.  Many  advertisers  have  been 
saying  to  the  business  offices,  "You  keep  your  hands  off  Zion. 
Dr.  Dowie's  people  are  honest,  they  are  thrifty,  and  their 
money  is  good  money.  We  do  not  want  any  more  abuse  of 
the  Doctor."  (Applause.) 

That  is  one  reason  why  some  of  the  papers  are  giving  it  up 
altogether.  Others  are  trying  to  drop  it. 

They  are  like  the  Irishman  who  got  hold  of  the  tail  of  a 
snake,  and  did  not  know  how  to  let  go.  (Laughter.)  It  was 
difficult  to  hold  on,  and  it  was  dangerous  to  let  go. 

Some  one  may  say,  "Doctor,  can  you  prove  that?"  Oh, 
yes.  I  only  speak  of  what  I  know. 

The  vice-president  of  a  certain  bank  told  me  a  little  inci- 
dent which  shows  the  trend  of  affairs.  He  said,  "I  said  to  a 
representative  of  the  Record  who  called  upon  me,  '  I  do  not 
know  whether  I  care  to  have  any  business  with  you?'  '  Why?' 
said  the  Record  man.  '  Because,'  I  said,  '  you  are  acting  abom- 
inably. Go  away.  Come  back  and  see  me  after  I  come  back 
from  this  visit  I  am  going  to  pay  to  a  good  man  whom  you  are 
abusing.'  When  I  came  out  of  the  office,  I  found  waiting  at 
the  elevator  the  Record  man,  who  said,  *  Mr.  -  — ,  will  you, 
please  tell  me  who  it  is  the  Record  is  abusing,  whom  you  say  is 
a  good  man?  Perhaps  I  can  put  it  right.'  r 

The  gentleman  was  on  his  way  to  my  office  of  his  own 
accord,  not  because  I  asked  him  to  come. 

He  said,  "I  am  on  my  way  to  see  the  Rev.  John  Alexander 
Dcwie.  I  have  a  business  proposition  to  make  on  behalf  of  my- 
self and  others  interested  in  a  large  property  in  this  city.  If 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Dowie  will  take  up  that  business  proposition,  we 
shall  all  be  happy  men,  because  we  know  that  he  can  carry 
that  thing  out.  He  is  a  good  business  man,  and  a  good  man. 
If  you  do  not  stop  that  infernal  nonsense  in  the  Record,  we 


284  ZION'S   HOLY    WAR. 

will  all  come  down  upon  you  like  a  thousand  of  brick." 
(Applause.) 

I  noticed  that  for  four  days  there  was  not  a  wicked  word 
about  Zion  in  the  Record.  (Applause  and  laughter.)  But 
there  have  been  two  or  three  little  lies  since  then. 

The  newspapers  of  Chicago  are  exceedingly  sensitive  organs. 
They  are  not  sensitive  in  the  brain,  they  are  not  sensitive  in 
the  heart,  but  they  are  sensitive  in  two  other  places — the  belly 
and  the  pocket.  (Laughter  and  applause.) 

I  despise  a  press  which  rests  upon  its  belly  and  its 
pocket 

THE    PRESS    MAKES    FINE    PROMISES. 

The  press  has  started  with  great  talk.  One  prominent 
editor  quoted  Scripture  in  his  first  editorial.  He  told  us  that 
"whatsoever  things  were  true,  whatsoever  things  were  honor- 
able, whatsoever  things  were  just,  whatsoever  things  were  pure, 
whatsoever  things  were  lovely,  whatsoever  things  were  of  good 
report;  if  there  were  any  virtue,  and  if  there  were  any  praise," 
he  would  publish  these  things.  Yet  he  is  the  biggest  advertiser 
of  clairvoyants  and  fortune-tellers  in  the  whole  town,  and 
they  are  like  the  Devil  their  father,  "there  is  no  truth  in 
them." 

He  has  been  a  coward.  I  waited  for  him  to  stand  up  for 
Zion  and  for  myself. 

He  knows  that  I  am  true.  But  he  is  afraid  of  his  constitu- 
ency. May  God  knock  the  cowardice  out  of  him.  He  would 
be  a  good  man  if  he  were  not  a  coward.  (Laughter.) 

I  have  struck  the  foundation  of  the  whole  thing.  The  Press 
s  conceived  in  sin  and  born  in  iniquity.  Where  is  the 
iman  who  said  that  the  Press  was  honest?  Do  you  say  it 
still! 

A  Voice— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — You  do.  Then  you  must  belong  to  the  Devil, 
sure.  (Laughter.)  Do  you  say  that  a  press  that  is  born  of 
Mammon  belongs  to  God? 

A  Voice— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — Then  you  must  belong  to  the  Devil,  or  you  are 
too  ignorant  to  understand  any  question. 

The  reporters  themselves  have  confessed  that  they  knew 
better  than  they  wrote.  There  has  not  been  a  reporter  of  the 
Press  for  the  last  few  months  who  has  been  abusing  me  and 
lying  about  me,  who  has  not  been  sick  of  his  task.  They  have 
said  that  they  only  did  it  because  they  were  told  to  to  do  it. 
But  those  men  and  women — for  some  of  them  are  women- 
would  better  have  had  a  millstone  hanged  about  their  necks 
and  been  cast  into  the  midst  of  the  lake  than  to  have  lived  to 
be  liars  like  that. 


ZfOJV'S   HOLY    WAR.  285 

It  were  better  for  a  man  or  woman  to  work  their  fingers 
to  the  bone,  and  earn  only  a  meager  living,  than  to  stand  up 
and  belie  God's  minister. 

SIGNIFICANT    CONFESSION    OF   A    REPORTER. 

One  of  my  friends  said  to  one  of  the  reporters  the  other 
day:  "You  know  that  you  are  writing  lies  about  Dr.  Dowie, 
and  that  if  you  wrote  the  truth,  the  Doctor  would  stand  in  a 
very  different  position  before  the  people,  so  far  as  the  papers 
are  concerned." 

"Why,"  he  said,  "if  we  reporters  were  to  tell  only  one-half 
the  truth  which  we  know  about  Dr.  Dowie  which  is  favorable 
to  him,  there  are  no  Zion  Tabernacles  which  would  hold  the 
people."  (Applause.) 

The  time  is  coming  when,  God  willing,  we  shall  build  a 
place  which  will  contain  about  seven  times  the  audience  which 
is  here  today. 

I  know  that  God  will  conquer  in  this  War.  We  shall  change 
the  tone  of  the  Press  by  capturing  the  Press,  and  putting  into 
it  by  and  by  the  men  who  will  use  the  Press  for  God.  (Amen.) 
God  grant  that  shall  come  speedily.  (Amen.) 

CALL. 

Every  one  who  is  of  my  opinion:  that  the  Press  belongs  to 
the  Devil,  stand  to  your  feet.  (With  but  few  exceptions,  the 
entire  audience  arose.) 

All  who  desire  to  give  themselves  to  God,  also  stand  to 
their  feet.  (Nearly  all  stood.) 

I  notice  that  the  people  who  keep  seated  neither  want  to 
give  themselves  to  God  nor  to  tell  the  truth  about  the 
Press. 

PRAYER   OF   CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me  Thy 
Holy  Spirit,  and  enable  me  to  trust  Thee;  to  do  right;  to  confess  to  those 
whom  I  have  sinned  against;  to  put  every  wrong  right  to  the  utmost  extent 
of  my  power.  Give  me  power  to  trust  Jesus,  the  Lamb  of  God  who  taketh 
away  the  sin  of  the  world.  Take  away  my  sin.  Take  away  all  fear| 
from  my  heart.  Make  me  brave.  Make  me  strong  to  do  right,  for 
Jesus'  sake.  Amen.  (All  repeat  the  prayer,  clause  by  clause,  after  Dr. 
Dowie.) 

The  Doxology  was  then  sung. 

The  meeting  was  closed  by  Dr.  Dowie  pronouncing  the 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil.  And  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 


286  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide ;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you, 
bless  you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever. 
Amen. 

EVENING    SERVICE. 


SERMON— CHRIST  AGAINST  THE  VIPERS  OF  THE  PRESS. 


South  Side  Zion  Tabernacle,  Lord's  Day  Evening,  December  10,  1899. 
INVOCATION.  « 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight,  and  profitable  unto  this  people,  oh  Lord,  my  Strength  and 
my  Redeemer. 

Our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  used  these  words  in  the  thirty-third 
verse  of  the  twenty-third  chapter  of  St.  Matthew: 

TEXT. 

Ye  serpents,  ye  generation  of  vipers,  how  can  ye  escape  the  judgment 
of  hell? 

Our  warfare  is  not  with  the  Press  in  general.  Printing 
presses  are  an  exceedingly  good  thing,  and  I  am  thankful  for 
them.  For  five  years  and  two  months  I  have  been  able  to  use 
the  printing  press  every  week  in  the  printing  of  LEAVES  OF 
HEALING  and  A  VOICE  FROM  ZION.  We  have  sent  forth  many 
millions  of  pages,  not  only  in  the  English  tongue,  but  in  others. 
We  have  now  a  Dutch  and  a  German  edition,  and  are  planning 
a  Scandinavian,  and  presently  a  French.  By  and  by  we  shall 
arrange  for  Chinese  and  Japanese  editions. 

We  hope  to  be  able  to  publish  LEAVES  OF  HEALING  in  every 
land  to  which  Zion  goes,  and  that  will  be  every  land  beneath 
the  sun,  very  soon.  We  have  representation  in  all  the  great 
divisions  of  the  world:  Asia,  Africa,  Europe,  Australia,  Amer- 
ica, and  the  Islands  of  the  Sea.  But  the  vipers  of  the  daily 
newspaper  Press  are  brought  up  here  tonight  for  discussion. 

The  Lord  Jesus,  when  he  spoke  concerning  evil  men,  did 
not  keep  back  the  expressions  which  described  their  real  nature : 
poisonous  and  deadly  as  the  death  adder,  wretched  vipers. 
The  Press  is  established  by  Mammon,  the  most  unclean  of  all 
the  demons  who  ever  came  out  of  hell.  The  lust  for  gold  is 
connected  with  all  crime,  and  "  the  love  of  money  is  the  root  of 
all  evil."  The  politics,  the  religion,  the  social  ethics  of  the 
Press  are  entirely  dependent  upon  the  directions  which  are 
given  in  the  counting-house. 

THE    CHICAGO    PRESS    HAS   ALWAYS  BEEN     AGAINST   ME. 

I  have  never  had  once  in  this  city  a  perfectly  correct  report 
in  the  daily  Press  of  anything  I  ever  said  publicly. 

I  have  spoken,  since  1893, to  audiences  which  would  average 
at  least  four  thousand  every  week.  That  would  be  an  aggre- 
gate, in  six  years,  of  nearly  one  million  and  a  half  of  persons. 


ZION  S  HOLY   WAR.  287 

Yet  the  Press  has  reported  again  and  again  that  I  have  been 
driven  from  the  city  at  the  very  time  when  they  knew  that  I 
was  addressing  in  the  Chicago  Auditorium  an  audience  every 
Sabbath  afternoon  that  averaged  from  three  thousand  five  hun- 
dred to  six  thousand  persons. 

The  Tribune  set  upon  me  in  1890  and  declared  that  I  was  an 
adventurer;  that  I  was  a  wild  and  ignorant  man  who  did  not 
weigh  his  words,  did  not  understand  how  to  speak,  and  that 
I  must  be  driven  out  of  this  city. 

The  Press  in  this  country  fought  me  because  I  had  dealt 
Rome  some  hard  blows,  and  because  I  had  been  fighting  Free- 
masonry. 

In  addition  to  that,  I  was  antagonistic  to  liquor,  to  tobacco, 
to  swine's  flesh,  and  to  everything  that  was  unclean. 

So  you  see  when  I  came  here  the  very  pigs  in  the  stock- 
yards squealed.  (Laughter.) 

I  was  expected  to  meet  with  a  very  warm  reception,  but  I 
did  not.  I  met  with  what  was  more  effective. 

THE    PRESS    IN    CHICAGO    FIRST    BOYCOTTED   ME. 

The  editors  of  this  day  are  not  half  as  smart  as  Joseph 
Medill,  who  said  that  the  only  way  to  do  with  me  was  to  boy- 
cott me. 

At  first  he  attacked  me,  but  I  soon  silenced  his  attack. 

That  boycott  lasted  from  1890  until  well  along  in  1894.  It 
was  broken  by  H.  H.  Kohlsaat,  then  proprietor  of  the  Inter 
Ocean,  who  sent  Capt.  Campbell,  a  member  of  his  staff.  He 
reported  the  wonderful  things  he  saw  at  Zion  Tabernacle  No. 
i.  Mr.  Kohlsaat  was  very  much  surprised,  and  sent  another 
person  to  verify  it.  Then  he  sent  a  person  to  take  sketches, 
then  a  long  illustrated  article  was  published,  and  the  boycott 
was  broken. 

We  have  reason  to  be  thankful  to  Mr.  Kohlsaat  for  that, 
and  for  several  articles  during  the  persecutions  of  1895. 

The  other  papers  continued  the  boycott,  but  as  the  years 
went  on  they  saw  that  Zion  had  got  beyond  them.  Then  all 
the  powers  of  hell  gathered  together,  and  the  year  of  persecu- 
tion followed. 

Dr.  Dowie  here  outlined  the  history  of  that  year,  1895. 

For  that  entire  year  the  Press  maintained  a  constant  fire  of 
the  most  ridiculous  and  scandalous  falsehood  and  calumny 
upon  us. 

You  would  think  that  I  was  the  biggest  ruffian  of  the  time, 
and  that  we  had  hundreds  of  deaths,  and  that  we  threw  the 
bodies  out  into  the  snow. 

But  the  boycott  did  not  work,  and  the  lying  did  not  work, 
and  the  Press  with  their  multitudinous  lies  did  not  work;  be- 
cause, after  all,  a  man's  life  speaks  for  itself, 


288  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

God  fulfils  Himself  in  many  ways.  No  matter  what  people 
may  say,  the  truth  goes  on,  and  the  lies  perish. 

We  have  seen  every  one  of  our  official  and  editorial  enemies 
of  that  year  swept  away,  most  of  them  into  the  grave;  the 
others  out  of  political  power. 

Then  there  was  another  long  period  of  silence  on  the  part 
of  the  Press,  during  which  Zion  grew  very  rapidly. 

Then  came  this  late  fight,  which  began  months  ago  with  the 
case  of  Mrs.  Flanders,  who  died  in  a  Public  Hospital,  and 
whose  death  they  endeavored  to  fasten  upon  Zion. 

They  did  not  offer  to  arrest  me,  but  they  arrested  one  of 
my  Elders  and  one  of  our  Zion  nurses.  They  expected  to  get 
at  Dr.  Dowie  through  these  people. 

But  Zion  stands  behind  all  her  people. 

Every  dollar  in  Zion  .is  there  to  stand  by  Zion's  people. 
We  got  them  quickly  out  of  prison,  where  they  had  been  put 
in  murderers'  row,  and  gave  $10,000  bail  for  their  appear- 
ance. 

The  Grand  Jury  threw  out  the  case  against  them  with  con- 
tempt. 

This  is  the  story  of  scores  of  similar  cases,  loud  charges  of 
heinous  crime,  and  then — silence,  because  the  lies  could  not 
face  a  Court  of  Record.  We  have  gone  right  on.  There  has 
not  been  a  day,  a  week,  a  month,  in  these  years  from  1890  until 
1899  in  which  we  have  not  had  the  unrelenting  opposition  of 
the  Press,  either  boycotting  or  lying. 

Where  are  they? 

WE   HAVE    BEATEN    THE    PRESS    ON    ITS    OWN    GROUND. 

One  man  has  licked  the  whole  outfit.  (Amen.)  They 
know  it. 

If  God  had  not  been  with  us,  their  lies  would  have  been 
enough  to  have  sunk  us  again  and  again.  The  people  knew 
that  they  were  not  true  in  the  late  attacks.  For  instance,  they 
told  a  sensational  story  in  great  detail  about  my  alleged  brutal 
treatment  of  a  dying  child  in  Harvey,  Illinois.  At  that  very 
time  I  was  at  Mrs.  Bowie's  home,  in  Michigan,  one  hundred 
and  thirty  miles  away. 

The  newspapers  told  the  people  that  I  had  robbed  a  poor 
widow  of  thousands  of  dollars.  Her  son,  a  noble  young  fellow, 
wrote  a  letter  branding  the  whole  story  as  utterly  false:  for  I 
had  paid  the  uttermost  farthing,  and  had  helped  the  widow  and 
the  fatherless. 

The  News  published  a  report  that  a  minister,  Dr.  Gentry, 
had  delivered  a  most  eloquent  speech  against  me.  Dr.  Gentry 
wrote  me  a  letter,  saying  that  he  had  not  said  a  single  word  of 
all  that  speech;  never  thought  it.  Yet  they  never  contradicted 
their  lying  report.  Every  word  had  been  fabricated. 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  289 

So  the  Press  has  lied,  and  the  proof  of  their  lying  is  that  I 
stand  with  the  blessing  of  God  upon  myself  and  Zion. 

Yet  they  will  not  be  fair. 

All  that  you  will  read  about  this  address  tomorrow,  if  you 
read  anything  at  all,  will  be  that  Dr.  Dowie  delivered  a  very 
coarse,  rude  and  foolish  address  in  which  he  abused  the  Press. 

They  are  a  pack  of  cowards,  liars  and  thieves. 

Shakespeare  had  a  character  who  speaks  somewhat  like  this : 

He  who  steals  my  purse  steals  trash. 

But  he  who  filches  from  me  my  good  name 

Steals  that  which  not  enriches  him,  but  leaves  me  poor  indeed. 

But  I  cannot  prove  that  they  have  really  injured  my  good 
name  in  the  long  run. 

The  Chicago  Press  is  too  well-known  to  hurt  me. 

They  have  disgraced  the  fair  name  of  the  city. 

I  hope  that  God  will  give  me  grace  to  keep  on  with  this 
fight  until  the  people  shall  demand  the  truth  of  the  public 
Press. 

I  am  not  afraid  of  the  truth,  and  I  am  not  afraid  of  lies. 

I    AM    FIGHTING    TO    GET    A    CLEAN    NEWSPAPER    PRESS. 

I  am  fighting  the  battle  against  these  Vultures  of  Literature 
with  the  Little  White  Dove,  which  God  is  increasing  every 
day.  Within  a  short  time  it  will  have  the  largest  circulation 
of  any  religious  paper  in  the  United  States. 

W'hen  we  get  to  Zion  City,  we  will  have  a  Zion  Morning  Sun 
and  a  Zion  Evening  Star.  Then  we  can  whip  these  daily  papers 
by  simply  telling  the  truth. 

It  will  be  refreshing  to  get  a  paper  of  which  you  can  believe 
that  every  word  is  honestly  written.  Zion's  presses  are  God's 
presses. 

Even  now  LEAVES  OF  HEALING  is  being  read  on  every  con- 
tinent. 

All  who  desire  to  be  right  with  God,  stand  up  and  tell  Him 
so.  (With  few  exceptions,  all  arose.) 

PRAYER   OF   CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  inspirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me  Thy 
Holy  Spirit  that  I  may  trust  Thee,  serve  Thee,  and  do  right  to  all  whom  I 
have  sinned  against,  for  Jesus'  sake.  Amen. 

Did  you  mean  it? 

Answer — "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie— Then  live  it. 

The  meeting  was  then  closed  with  the  following 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil.  And  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 


2QO  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR 

Lord  Jesus  Christ.  Faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it.  The 
grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  Love  of  God  the  Eternal  Father;  the  fellow- 
ship of  the  Holy  Ghost,  the  Comforter;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you, 
bless  you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever. 
Amen. 

MONDAY    EVENING    SERVICE. 


SERMON— THE    HYPOCRISY  OF   MANY  "RELIGIOUS"   NEWS- 
PAPERS. 


Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  Monday  Evening,  December  n,  1899. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing. 

Dr.  Dowie  read  a  few  verses  from  the  Gospel  according  to 
St.  John,  eighth  chapter. 

Prayer  was  then  offered  by  Dr.  Dowie 

The  offerings  were  then  received. 

Dr.  Dowie  delivered  the  following  discourse: 

INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight,  and  be  profitable  unto  this  people,  and  unto  all  to  whom 
these  words  shall  come,  in  this  and  every  land,  in  this  and  all  the  coming 
time,  till  Jesus  come,  for  His  sake.  Amen. 

TEXT. 

Every  one  that  committeth  sin  is  the  bondservant  of  sin. 

I  cannot  begin  to  find  time  to  read  and  answer  a  tithe  of  the 
ludicrous  lies  of  the  "  Religious  "  Press.  You  might  think  I  pay 
a  good  deal  of  attention  to  them.  It  is  only  one  out  of  a  thou- 
sand that  I  pay  any  attention  to. 

In  this  connection  I  call  attention  to  my  Reply  to  Dr.  Gray, 
of  the  Interior,  which  is  very  full  (LEAVES  OF  HEALING,  Volume 
V,  Number  22,  page  414) ;  to  my  Reply  to  the  Ram's  Horn,  which 
is  a  part  of  my  discourse  in  Reply  to  Mr.  Moody  (LEAVES  OF 
HEALING,  Volume  V,  Number  24,  page  457);  to  my  Reply  to 
the  Epworth  Herald  (LEAVES  OF  HEALING,  Volume  V,  Number 
36,  page  689),  and  other  papers. 

Tonight  I  desire  to  deal  especially  with  the  advertising 
columns  of  the  so-called  religious  papers  of  Chicago,  and  to 
show  you  the  absolute  hypocrisy  of  these  papers.  The  adver- 
tisements in  many  cases  are  the  most  apparent  pieces  of  im- 
posture. 

For  instance,  I  have  here  a  number  of  extracts  from  what 
I  call  the  Goat 's  Horn,  but  which  calls  itself  the  Ram's  Horn. 

THERE    ARE     MANY    LIES    ADVERTISED     IN    THE    "  GOAT'S    HORN." 

This  wretched  paper  has  professed  to  be  amongst  the  most 
advanced  in  demanding  holy  living  and  a  high-toned  piety,  and 
in  reproving  the  churches. 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  2QI 

LEAVES  OF  HEALING  has  thirty-two  pages,  and  you  can- 
not find  a  single  line  of  that  paper  which  any  man  has  paid 
for. 

What  is  the  case  with  the  Ram's  Horn? 

Out  of  an  average  of  twenty  pages  there  are  frequently  nine 
solid  pages  of  advertisements. 

I  will  read  some  of  them  referring  to  "quack"  remedies. 

Growing  thinner  and  thinner  till  you  get  down  in  bed. 

There  is  a  picture  of  a  lady  who  looks  so  beautiful,  and 
then  she  got  thinner  and  thinner,  and  there  she  is  in  bed. 
(Laughter.) 

Weak  lungs  and  wasting  away  the  bane  of  womanhood. 

The  famous  S Treatment,  curing  thousands  in  every  State. 

Then  here  is  the  statement: 

SPECIAL   NOTE. — The  S Treatment    is   medicine  reduced  to  an 

exact  science,  and  this  is  an  honest,  straightforward  offer  made  by  the 
world's  most  famous  physician.  All  readers  of  the  Ram's  Horn  anxious 
regarding  the  health  of  themselves,  children,  relatives,  and  friends,  can 
have  Four  Free  Preparations,  with  complete  directions  for  use  in  any  case, 
by  sending  full  address  to  Dr.  S ,  New  York  City. 

This-thing  is  the  biggest  fraud  and  humbug.  You  write  in 
for  four  preparations,  and  secure  a  course  of  treatment 
which  simply  impoverishes  you,  making  you  worse  all  the 
time. 

Here  is  another: 

Cure  Drunkards. 

The  patient  does  aot  need  Jesus  Christ. 

A  woman  cured  her  husband  simply  by  putting  something 
into  his  coffee.  This  remedy  you  can  have  "free."  So  kind 
and  benevolent  and  generous  are  the  people  who  advertise 
that  they  take  pains  to  spend  hundreds  of  dollars  a  week  in 
ord-er  to  give  something  "free." 

It  is  all  a  lie. 

Here  is  another: 

Three  Dollars  a  Day,  Sure. 

That  is  a  lie,  sure. 

Ladv  or  man  wanted  to  travel  and  appoint  agents.  Sixty  dollars  per 
month  salary  and  all  expenses. 

I  know  of  the  man  who  puts  that  advertisement  in.     He  is 
one  of  the  biggest  thieves  in  the  city. 
Here  is  another  imposture: 
For  $5.85  you  will  get— 

A  seventeen-jeweled  adjusted,  patented  regulator,  stem  wind  and  set, 
National  Special  Ladies'  or  Gents'  size.  Warranted  twenty  years.  Gen- 
uine American  movement  in  I4k.  gold  plate  hunting  case,  elegantly 
engraved.  Fit  for  a  king.  No  better  watch  made.  Must  be  seen  to  be 
ffei 


appreciated      Special  offer  for  the  next  sixty  days.     Send  your  full  name 
and  address,  and  we  will  send  this  watch  C.  O.  D.,  with  privilej 
ine.    If  found  satisfactory,  pay  agent  $5.85  and  express  charges. 


292  ZION'S   HOLY   WAR. 

Does  anybody  in  the  world  believe  that   the  Ram's  Horn 
advertiser  is  going  to  give  you  $25  worth  for  $5.85? 
Here  is  a  quack  advertisement: 

My  Mamma  Wants  To  Tell  You  Something.    Trial  Package  Free. 
Then  here  is  a  preacher's  discovery: 
Fifty  Thousand  Trial  Packages  Free. 
Here  is  another  statement: 

To  Boys  and  Girls.  We  are  giving  away  watches,  cameras,  solid  gold 
rings,  sporting  goods,  musical  instruments,  and  many  other  valuable 
premiums  to  boys  and  girls  for  selling  eighteen  packages  of  Royal  English 
Ink  Powder  at  ten  cents  each.  Every  package  makes  fifty  cents'  worth  of 
fine  ink.  We  ask  no  money — send  your  name  and  address,  and  we  will 
forward  you  eighteen  packages  with  premium  list  and  full  instructions. 
When  you  sell  the  Ink  Powder,  send  the  money  to  us  and  select  the  pre- 
mium. This  is  an  honest  offer.  We  trust  you.  Don't  lose  this  grand 
opportunity  Write  for  the  outfit  today. 

Do  you  believe  that  they  are  "giving  away"  these  things? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Here  is  another: 

Free  Opium,  morphine,  cocaine,  laudanum,  liquor  habit  cured.  A 
treatise  giving  full  information  of  a  never-failing,  harmless  and  permanent 
home  cure,  mailed  free  on  request. 

I  was  recently  informed  that  a  certain  man  who  advertises 
a  "cure  "  of  this  kind  is  himself  a  victim  to  morphine. 

RAM'S  HORN  CALLED  TO  ACCOUNT  FOR  FALSEHOOD. 

I  call  the  Rants  Horn  to  account  for  this.  They  represent 
me  here  in  a  caricature. 

They  call  me  a  "  divine  quack  delusion."  In  order  to  defend 
all  their  advertisers  they  set  me  up  on  that  platform  with  a 
placard  on  my  breast  as  follows: 

I  AM  THE  ONLY  AUTHORIZED  DIVINE  HEALER. 
ALL  OTHERS  ARE  FRAUDS. 

On  the  platform  is  another  placard: 

NO  PAY,  NO  CURE. 

Did  you  ever  hear  me  say  in  my  life  that  I  was  a  Divine 
Healer? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Who  is  the  Divine  Healer? 

Voices— "Christ." 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  I  ever  announce  on  that  platform  that  I 
charged  for  praying  with  the  sick? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — That  is  a  deliberate,  wicked  and  wilful  lie,  for  I 
have  never  at  any  time,  in  any  place,  charged  any  person  a 
single  cent  for  my  services  which  I  have  ever  given  them,  as 
God's  minister,  in  praying  for  their  healing. 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  293 

Let  the  Ram's  Horn  produce  its  proofs  for  this,  or  admit 
itself  guilty  of  a  disgraceful  libel. 

When  a  man  gives  for  ten  years  to  God's  work  ninety-seven 
and  one-half  per  cent  of  all  his  income,  as  I  have,  it  is  a  mean 
thing  for  a  religious  paper  to  say  that  he  is  praying  for  the  sick 
for  money. 

I  brand  the  Ram's  Horn  as  a  wicked  liar  in  publishing  this 
cartoon. 

I  desire  to  read  another  advertisement  which  shows  how  its 
proprietors  prostitute  that  religious  paper  to  evil  uses: 

LUCKY  RING  FREE. — A  harbinger  of  good  fortune  and  a  dispeller  of 
evil,  made  from  a  genuine  Horseshoe  Nail,  nickeled  and  finely  finished, 
sent  free  with  our  new  mammoth  catalogue  of  over  3000  bargains  for  six 

cents  to  cover  postage.     R.  H. &  Bro.,  Dep.  74,  67 Street,  New 

York. 

How  can  this  paper  be  one  which  God  can  bless  and  approve 
whilst  it  advertises  this  ridiculous  lie? 

The  Ram's  Horn  has  come  down  to  advertising  the  six-cent 
fortune-teller.  (Laughter.) 

This  word  "FREE"  stares  at  you  from  nearly  all  these 
advertisements.  Here  is  one,  for  instance,  just  before  I  pass: 

To  ladies  and  girls,  a  solid  gold-plated  chain  bracelet  is  given  free. 

When  you  come  to  examine  the  advertisement,  you  find 
you  have  to  sell  something  to  get  this  thing  which  is  "given 
free,"  and  the  toil  involved  more  than  covers  the  value  of  this 
miserable  "solid  gold-plated  chain." 

A    GOOD    RELIGIOUS    PAPER    CAN    BE    PUBLISHED    WITHOUT    ADVER- 
TISEMENTS. 

Some  say,  "Oh,  you  cannot  establish  a  religious  paper,  you 
cannot  get  the  truth  of  Christianity  to  the  people  by  means  of 
a  paper,  unless  you  insert  worldly  advertisements." 

Let  me  tell  you  a  little  story. 

When  I  determined  to  establish  LEAVES  OF  HEALING,  in 
1894,  I  did  not  have  $300  available  for  printing,  a  sum  which 
would  not  begin  to  pay  for  the  paper  we  use  in  one  week  in 
Zion  Printing  Works  now. 

But  I  established  Zion  Publishing  House  and  began  to  print 
in  the  United  States,  LEAVES  OF  HEALING,  the  first  issues  of 
which  were  in  1888  published  in  Christchurch,  New  Zealand. 
In  five  years  and  two  months  that  paper,  in  its  present  form, 
has  grown  steadily,  and  we  have  never  printed  one  word  or  one 
line  as  an  advertisement  for  pay. 

We  have  doubled  its  size,  from  sixteen  to  thirty-two  pages, 
and  improved  it  in  many  ways,  never  increasing  its  price. 

The  plant  and  stock  in  Zion  Publishing  House  the  other  day 
was  valued  by  the  assessors  at  $50,000.  I  would  not  sell  it  for 
$100,000.  I  would  not  sell  my  electrotype  plates  of  the  two 


294  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

hundred  and  sixty-seven  issues  of  LEAVES  OF  HEALING  for 
$30,000. 

There  is  not  a  better  printed  religious  paper  in  the  whole 
world  today.  (Amen.) 

One  of  my  uncles,  who  is  an  intelligent  printer  in  Australia, 
said  there  was  not  a  religious  paper  like  it  in  the  whole  United 
Kingdom.  We  print  it  upon  the  most  expensive  kind  of  paper 
and  send  out  five  and  six  thousand  copies  a  week  for  free  dis- 
tribution, and  yet  we  have  never  gone  to  the  World,  the  Flesh 
and  the  Devil  to  provide  money,  by  advertising,  to  keep  it 
alive. 

God  is  not  dead,  and  God  does  not  need  the  advertisement 
of  "lucky  rings,"  $25  watches  for  $5.98,  and  quack  medicines. 

The  rest  of  the  so-called  "religious"  papers  are  just  the 
same  as  the  Goafs  Horn. 

This  week's  Christian  Advocate  tells  of  a  "certain  cure  for 
piles,"  and  other  quack  nostrums.  It  also  says  you  can  get 
from  ten  to  three  dollars  for  doing  next  to  nothing,  which  is  a 
wicked  lie. 

The  Epworth  Herald  says  you  can  have  two  dollars'  worth  of 
presents  for  fifty  cents'  worth  of  work.  That  is  a  lie.  There  is 
no  business  man  who  could  afford  to  give  two  dollars'  worth  of 
presents  for  fifty  cents'  worth  of  work. 

A   LYING   TRICK. 

The  Herald  also  advertises  many  patent  medicines. 

The  Advance,  a  Congregational  paper,  starts  with  "Scott's 
Emulsion,"  goes  on  with  "  Morrison's  Pills,"  and  tells  you  dys- 
pesia  is  cured  by  a  quack  medicine.  ,  It  also  prints  this: 

CONSUMPTION  CURED. — An  old  physician,  retired  from  practice,  had 
placed  in  his  hand  by  an  East  India  Missionary  the  formula  of  a  simple 
vegetable  remedy  for  the  speedy  and  permanent  cure  for  consumption, 
bronchitis,  catarrh,  asthma,  and  all  throat  and  lung  affections;  also  a  posi- 
tive and  radical  cure  for  nervous  debility  and  all  nervous  complaints. 
Having  tested  its  wonderful  curative  power  in  thousands  of  cases,  and 
desiring  to  relieve  human  suffering,  I  will  send,  free  of  charge,  to  all  who 
wish  it,  his  recipe,  in  German,  French,  or  English,  with  full  directions  for 
preparing  and  using.  Sent  by  mail,  by  addressing,  with  stamp,  naming  this 
paper,  W.  A.  N ,  820  Powers  Block,  Rochester,  New  York. 

That  is  a  downright  lie      I  do  not  know  where  the  trick 

comes  in,  but  I  do  not  believe  a  word  of  it. 

It  also  sings  the  praises  of  "  Free  Kidney  and  Bladder  Cure." 
Here   is  an   advertisement  in  the  Advance  headed,  "  Girls 

Get  Beautiful."     (Laughter.)     Another  says: 

We  will  give  every  girl  or  woman  choice  of  five  styles  of  i8k.  gold  shell 
band  rings  of  Tiffany  gem  set  (all  warranted)  for  selling  twenty  packages 
of  Happy  Thought  Chewing  Gum  at  five  cents  a  package.  Send  address; 
we  mail  gum;  when  sold  send  money;  we  mail  ring.  Return  gum  unsold. 

Do  you  believe  any  such  lie  as  that? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — The  Advance  does  not  believe  it? 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  295 

Here  are  advertisements  of  "Cure  for  Consumption," 
"Whooping-cough,"  "Watch  and  Chain  Free,"  "Life  Saved  by 
Swamp-root.  The  wonderful  new  discovery  in  medical  science. 
Sample  bottle  sent  free  by  mail."  "  If  you  suffer  from  asthma, 
we  want  to  send  you  free,  by  mail,  a  bottle  of  the  famous  Kola 
Plant  Compound." 

LYING    STATEMENT    REGARDING    SIR    MORELL    MACKENZIE. 

In  one  of  the  advertisements  in  the  Advance  it  is  claimed 
that  Sir  Morell  Mackenzie,  late  specialist  in  throat  diseases  to 
the  royal  family  of  Great  Britain,  spoke  in  favor  of  a  certain 
catarrh  cure.  That  is  a  downright  lie.  Sir  Morell  died  several 
years  ago  from  an  ordinary  attack  of  bronchitis. 

I   have  many  advertisements  from    the    Christian    Witness, 
advocate  of  Bible  holiness.     It  is  one  of  the  biggest  sinners  in 
that  respect.     It  has  pious  statements  about  how  to  get  holi- 
ness.    For  instance,  here  is  one- 
Be  ye  holy  for  I  am  holy,  saith  the  Lord. 
Immediately  next  to  it  are  these  words: 

Piso's  Cure  for  Consumption. 

Beecham's  Pills  and  Popham's  Asthma  Cure. 

The  Evangelical  has  this  heading: 

We  will  send  $2.50  free  to  each  of  our  readers. 

That  is  a  downright  lie.  When  you  go  into  it  you  find  that 

they  send  $2.50  worth  of  treatment  from  Dr.  F—  -  M ,  in 

Chicago. 

Here  is  a  paper  which  says  that  $5  will  be  given  for  the 
name  of  a  person  afflicted  with  cancer. 

I  do  not  believe  any  such  lies.  There  is  a  trick  or  scheme 
somewhere. 

The  New  Voice  has  the  same  thing. 

The  Baptist  Union  also  advertises  these  "free"  things.  It 
has  pages  of  these  lies. 

The  Lutheran  Evangelist  tells  of  a  wonderful  "free"  catarrh 
cure. 

I  went  through  these  columns  to  let  Christian  people  in 
this  and  other  lands  know  just  what  is  going  on  in  these 
so-called  "religious"  sheets. 

THE  CHURCH  OF  GOD  IS  SERVING  THE  DEVIL. 

The  Church  of  God  is  not  content  merely  to  go  into 
bazars,  and  all  kinds  of  nasty  things  in  the  way  of  oyster 
suppers  and  other  filthy  things. 

I  have  a  photograph  of  people  belonging  to  a  Church  all 
dressed  up  like  snake-charmers  and  clowns.  The  photograph 
was  taken  by  themselves  and  sold  for  the  benefit  of  the  Church. 
People  dressed  up  in  their  rags  of  the  theatre! 


296  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

Through  these  official  papers,  these  various  churches  pander 
to  the  World,  and  the  Flesh,  and  the  Devil. 

Can  God's  people  any  longer  be  affiliated  with  churches 
which  do  these  things? 

These  papers  are  just  simply  the  manifestations  of  downright 
hypocrisy. 

If  I  could  not  publish  and  print  a  paper,  and  place  it  on  its 
merits  before  God's  people,  I  would  not  touch  it. 

This  is  becoming  a  fight  between  the  Devil  and 
Drugs  on  one  side  and  God  and  Divine  Healing  on  the 
other  side,  and  the  "religious"  papers  are  on  the  side  of 
the  drugs. 

No  Church  can  fight  this  battle  but  the  Church  which 
stands  as  we  stand  today.  I  am  glad  that  when  we  denounce 
this  hypocrisy  we  do  it  with  clean  hands. 

Even  apart  from  Christianity  at  all,  men  who  love  their 
fellowmen  are  denouncing  this  quackery  and  lying.  The  chief 
inspector  of  public  health  in  England  said  that  four-fifths  of 
the  diseases  from  which  the  people  in  the  United  Kingdom 
were  suffering  were  diseases  that  were  created  by  the  so-called 
remedies. 

Through  the  lies  of  the  preachers  and  the  lies  of  the  papers 
the  people  have  fallen  in  bondage  to  drugs. 

There  is  nothing  left  for  us  but  to  go  on  and  be  destroyers 
of  these  works  of  the  Devil.  There  is  no  way  of  saving  the 
people  but  by  destroying  the  power  of  these  unclean  papers, 
which  pretend  to  be  religious.  They  are  far  worse  than  the 
secular  papers,  which  do  not  pretend  anything  in  that 
respect. 

The  apostate  churches  receive  from  these  sorcerers 
hundreds,  thousands  and  tens  of  thousands  of  dollars  a 
year  for  advertising,  and  at  the  same  time  fight  Divine 
Healing. 

Now*  all  who  desire  to  reconsecrate  themselves  fully  to 
God,  stand.  (Apparently  all  arose.) 

PRAYER   OF   CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Continue  to  make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body. 
Help  me  to  do  right,  no  matter  what  it  costs.  Deliver  the  people  of  God 
from  the  bondage  of  error,  from  the  power  of  the  apostate  churches,  and 
from  the  horrible  drugs,  and  the  wicked  falsehoods  which  encompass  them 
on  every  side.  Destroy  this  corrupt  Press  in  all  its  wicked  forms.  Estab- 
lish a  Pure  Press,  and  help  us  to  do  our  part,  for  Jesus'  sake.  (All  repeat 
the  prayer,  clause  by  clause,  after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil.  And  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  297 

grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you,  bless 
you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


WEDNESDAY    EVENING   SERVICE. 


SERMON— THE  ASSOCIATED  THIEVES  OF  THE  DAILY  PRESS. 


West  Side  Zion  Tabernacle,  Wednesday  Evening,  December  13,  1899. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing  Hymn  No.  141. 

Dr.  Dowie  then  read  from  the  twenty-third  chapter  of  the 
Gospel  according  to  St.  Matthew,  beginning  at  the  thirteenth 
verse. 

Prayer  was  then  offered  by  Evangelist  Kennedy;  also  by 
Dr.  Dowie. 

The  offerings  were  then  received. 

Dr.  Dowie  then  delivered  the  following  discourse: 

INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight,  and  profitable  unto  this  people,  oh  Lord,  my  Strength 
and  my  Redeemer. 

I  desire  to  speak  upon  the  Associated  Thieves  of  the  Daily 
Press. 

I  charge  the  editors,  the  reporters,  the  printers,  and  espe- 
cially the  proprietors  who  own  the  Press,  with  being  a  combi- 
nation of  robbers.  The  Press  is  used  as  a  sandbag  in  the  hands 
of  a  thug,  as  a  green-goods  counterfeit  bill  in  the  hands  of  a 
counterfeiter  or  producer  of  bad  currency. 

I  charge  them  with  being  more  deliberate  thieves  than  even 
these,  because  they  do  it  knowing  the  widespread  and  cruel 
consequences  of  their  action. 

FIRST    THE    PRESS    STEALS    CHARACTER. 

The  Press  is  the  relentless  thief  of  character.  It  cares 
simply  nothing  for  consequences. 

Men  are  sent  out  to  report  not  what  happens,  but  what 
never  happens  at  all,  and  to  write  lies. 

These  lies  are  innumerable.  Unless  the  men  who  are 
attacked  are,  by  the  Grace  of  God,  stronger  than  these  imps 
of  hell  and  all  their  million  tongues,  they  will  quail  before 
these  wretches  and  give  up  the  conflict. 

But  they  steal  money,  also,  deliberately  They  are  compan- 
ions of  thieves. 

I  have  in  my  hands  tonight  scrap-books,  which  I  have  caused 
to  be  prepared,  containing  extracts  from  the  thieving  adver- 
tisements. 


298  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

These  advertisements,  numbering  hundreds  every  week, 
prove  the  Press  to  be  in  league  with  thieves  and  murderers. 

A    THIEF    WHOM    THE    NEWSPAPERS    ADVERTISED. 

A  certain  fortune-teller  was  arrested  the  other  day  for  being 
an  all-around  swindler.  He  laughed  at  the  police  when  they 
arrested  him. 

Here  is  what  he  is  reported  to  have  said: 

SAYS  HIS  ART  IS  A  SHAM. 


CLAIRVOYANT   UNDER   ARREST. 


Jesse   Tourville    Admits   Telling    Fortunes    Because   It   Pays — Thinks  a 
Charm  Made  of  Baking  Powder  Brought  His  Present  T /cable. 

Jesse  H.  Tourville,  the  fortune-teller  who  was  arrested  on  complaint  of 
Mrs.  Mattie  Emerlich,  678  Milwaukee  Avenue,  who  said  she  had  paid  him 
$500  for  a  charm  which  proved  worthless,  made  a  confession  in  the  jail  yes- 
terday regarding  his  bogus  profession.  His  brother,  Chester  A.  Tourville, 
was  arrested  Wednesday  night,  and  when  Jesse  called  at  the  police  station 
to  see  him  Thursday  night  he,  too,  was  arrested. 

Yesterday  morning  Chester  was  discharged  because  Mrs.  Emerlich 
said  she  had  given  him  no  money,  but  Jesse  was  claimed  by  the  sheriff,  who 
had  an  indictment  returned  by  the  Grand  Jury  charging  the  prisoner  with 
swindling  by  making  pretenses  to  fortune-telling. 

GIVES   THE   SERETS   OF   THE   TRADE. 

Jessie  Tourville  discussed  his  "profession"  as  follows: 
"There  is  a  fool  born  every  minute,  and  none  die.  A  judge  at  Casey- 
ville,  Illinois,  says  that  there  is  no  law  to  protect  fools  and  idiots,  and  those 
are  the  people  who  pay  for  charms.  I  do  not  know  that  I  ever  saw  Mrs. 
Emerlich.  I  had  so  many  patrons  who  bought  charms  that  I  cannot 
remember  them  all.  But  they  cannot  punish  me  for  selling  charms.  You 
can  buy  them  in  department  stores,  and  in  any  jewelry  store  you  can  buy 
a  mounted  rabbit's  foot.  The  only  difference  is  that  I  am  a  little  higher- 
priced. 

UI  started  out  a_  a  palmist,  but  most  of  the  customers  wanted  to  be 
gulled  more,  and  so  we  accommodated  them.  If  they  wanted  spirits,  we 
could  make  them,  and  all  of  our  customers  were  well  satisfied  with  the 
spirits  of  the  dead  relative  we  furnished.  Most  of  the  women  wanted 
charms.  They  think  if  they  have  charms  they  will  be  all  right.  I  could 
make  any  kind  of  charm  they  wanted.  Some  of  them — and  they  weren't  so 
young,  either — wanted  charms  to  make  certain  men  to  fall  in  love  with 
them.  That  was  the  favorite  charm.  And  the  men  wanted  charms  for 
business,  horse-racing  and  other  things. 

MAKES   CHARMS   OF  ANYTHING. 

u  I  would  make  a  charm  out  of  anything — dirt  would  make  as  good  a  one 
as  any.  Just  fill  up  a  little  satchet  bag  with  anything  and  tell  them  to  wear 
it  next  to  their  hearts  or  about  their  necks  and  it  would  work.  I  made  some 
out  of  baking  powder  because  I  had  nothing  else  handy,  and  I  guess  Mrs. 
Emerlich  got  one  of  those. 

"  I  never  liked  to  deal  with  ignorant  people.  I  wanted  the  smart  kind, 
the  ones  who  thought  they  knew  more  than  I  did,  and  I  could  do  business 
with  them.  Besides,  they  have  more  money. 

"  One  trick  is  played  when  the  client  wants  to  see  the  spirit  of  some 
dead  relative.  When  the  spirit  comes  out  of  the  cabinet  have  the  client 


ZlON'3  HOLY  WAR.  2g$ 

place  a  diamond  ring  on  its  finger.  That  works  well,  and  the  client,  or  as  I 
say,  sucker,  seemes  perfectly  satisfied  that  the  dead  relative  has  the  ring. 
That  is  a  good  trick  and  is  easy. 

BUSINESS   CANNOT  BE    NEGLECTED. 

"When  my  brother  Chester  was  released  this  morning  he  said  he  was 
going  back  to  the  rooms  at  565  West  Madison  Street  and  take  care  of  our 
patrons.  We  have  such  a  large  business  it  cannot  be  neglected." 

Now  there  is  this  scoundrel  impudently  telling  this  story. 
I  will  now  read  to  you  Tourville's  advertisement,  which  has 
been  running  for  months  in  the  Tribune: 

Fee  250.  Fee  2$c. 

REMEMBER  HE  ASKS  NO  QUESTIONS. 


HE    CALLS   YOUR   NAME    IN   FULL. 


For  this  week,  ladies  25c,  gents  5oc. 

PROF.  TOURVILLE,  clairvoyant  and  palmist,  advises  on  all  affairs  per- 
taining to  human  destiny.  Hours  i  to  9  p.  M.  daily  and  Sunday. 

Is  not  the  Press,  which  receives  money  for  advertising  such 
a  man,  associated  with  him  in  his  robbery?  If  the  swindler  is 
to  be  punished,  what  of  the  paper  which  takes  a  part  of  his  ill- 
gotten  gains  for  advertising  him? 

Recently  in  this  city  a  man  has  been  exposed  who  has  been 
stealing  by  pretending  that  he  can  give  the  people,  on  the 
investments  that  they  leave  with  him,  twenty-four  per  cent 
interest  per  month. 

That  would  be  two  hundred  and  eighty-eight  per  cent  per 
annum,  without  reckoning  the  interest  upon  interest.  How 
could  anybody  in  the  world  imagine  that  such  profits  as  these 
could  be  derived  honestly? 

THE    PRESS    HELPS    ITS   ADVERTISERS    TO    STEAL    MONEY. 

These  papers  not  only  advertise  these  excessive  gains,  but 
they  show  the  way  to  the  bucket-shops,  and  to  the  places  where 
the  people  can  make  these  bogus  investments  and  be  tricked 
all  the  time. 

In  the  Inter  Ocean  there  are  a  very  large  number  of  adver- 
tisements of  this  class: 

AGENTS  ON  SALARY  OR  COMMISSION — The  greatest  agent's  seller 
ever  produced;  every  user  of  pen  and  ink  buys  it  on  sight;  200  to  500  per 
cent  profit*  one  agent's  sales  amounted  to  $620  in  six  days;  another  $32  in 
two  hours. 

They  might  just  as  well  have  said  a  thousand  dollars. 

AGENTS. — Salary  or  commission;  $25  daily  guaranteed;  four  new 
patents  everybody  uses ;  sample  free. 

Does  anybody  believe  that  lie? 
Again: 

PERSONAL— Speculation— $20  margins,  1000  bushels  of  grain  2c.  Send 
for  our  book,  "Successful  Speculation."  Free. 


300  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

There  are  a  number  of  advertisements  directing  atten- 
tion to  various  places  where  persons  can  get  information 
which  will  enable  them  to  trade  successfully  in  this  man- 
ner. 

These  frauds  are  every  day  leading  persons  into  ruin  and 
misery  of  every  kind.  The  same  advertisement  is  in  the 
Tribune  and  the  Times-Herald.  The  Journal  goes  in  also  largely 
for  this  kind  of  thing. 

We  know  something  about  the  handling  of  money  in  Zion, 
and  it  is  simply  impossible,  without  stealing,  to  give  any  such 
rates  of  interest 

This  thing  goes  on  and  on.  I  should  say,  from  a  general 
view  of  them,  there  must  be  over  $150,000  a  year  paid  to  the 
morning  and  evening  newspapers  of  Chicago  for  the  advertis- 
ing of  these  chattel  mortgage  sharks  and  thieves.  Add  to 
these  the  other  forms  of  speculation,  and  the  papers  get  at 
least  five  hundred  thousand  dollars  per  year  from  these  thieves 
for  advertising. 

With  what  justice  can  the  law  punish  the  thieves,  and  let 
those  who  advertise  them  go  free? 

The  one  who  helps  the  thief  to  get  the  confidence  of  the 
people  by  these  advertisements  is  far  more  guilty  than  the 
thief  himself. 

Can  you  wonder  that  these  wretched  newspapers  are  fighting 
Zion  when  Zion  has  been  all  the  time  exposing  their  wicked- 
ness? 

THE    PRESS   HAS   OFFERED   TO    PROSTITUTE    ITSELF    IN    MY    FAVOR 

FOR    MONEY. 

f  have  fought  this  Press  from  the  beginning.  I  have  said 
that  I  would  detest  this  Press  still  more  if  it  should  praise  me. 
I  have  never  paid  them  one  single  cent  for  any  praise  in  their 
news  columns. 

I  have  been  offered  their  columns  again  and  again:  "for 
a  consideration."  I  exposed,  only  a  short  time  ago,  a  cer- 
tain paper  whose  business  manager  came  to  us  during  this 
late  persecution  and  offered  their  columns  for  one  dollar 
a  line. 

I  exposed,  some  time  ago,  another  paper,  now  incorporated 
with  one  of  its  contemporaries.  Its  manager  came  to  me  and 
offered  me  very  low  terms  for  the  purpose  of  publishing  in 
their  leading  columns  anything  I  chose  to  write.  Of  course, 
I  rejected  both  offers  with  contempt. 

In  both  cases  these  men  told  me  of  ministers,  lawyers,  poli- 
ticians, business  people,  and  others  who  do  this  thing  con- 
stantly. 

I  believe  that  the  blackmail  money  that  is  paid  to  the  press 
is  very,  very  large. 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  30 1 

The  old  Dispatch,  it  was  publicly  stated,  received  for  black- 
mail in  one  case  not  less  than  $20,000  from  a  prominent  mer- 
chant of  this  city. 

STORY  OF  ATTEMPTED  BLACKMAIL. 

An  ex-reporter  and  assistant  editor  on  that  paper  told  me 
of  an  attempt  made  by  its  editor  to  get  blackmail  from  a  certain 
wealthy  business  man  in  this  city.  That  criminal  editor  sent 
this  reporter  to  the  man's  office  with  the  proof  sheets  of  a 
scandalous  article  concerning  him  with  the  inquiry  as  to  whether 
there  were  any  mistakes  in  it.  The  gentleman  covered  the 
reporter  with  a  revolver  and  told  him  to  go  ahead  and  print  it,  but 
warned  him  that  if  he  did  he  would  hunt  the  editor  to  his 
death.  The  young  man  was  glad  to  get  out  of  the  office  alive, 
and  when  he  told  his  chief  what  had  happened,  the  black- 
mailer tore  up  the  proofs  and  ordered  the  type  distributed. 

My  knowledge  of  this  city  is  derived  from  many  sources, 
and  from  over  nine  years  of  fighting  the  Press.  I  have  a  very 
large  amount  of  information  of  a  private  character  which  can- 
not be  very  well  given  in  public  at  this  time.  I  warn  the 
papers  that  I  am  upon  their  track,  however. 

I  do  not  carry  a  revolver,  but  I  am  never  going  to  let  up 
until  the  real  character  of  the  Press  is  fully  known  to  all  the 
people.  (Amen.) 

I  know  that  a  number  of  these  newspapers,  and  perhaps  all, 
in  a  measure,  make  a  great  deal  out  of  "hush  money." 

Persecution  stops  if  you  give  money. 

I  published  recently  an  offer  to  "quit  lying,"  if  I  would  pay 
a  few  hundred  dollars  to  the  confessed  liars. 

So  these  are  the  Associated  Thieves  of  the  Press.  They  are 
in -league  with  each  other.  There  is  no  difference  between 
them,  except  in  degree. 

THE    PRESS    INCITED   THE    MURDEROUS   ATTACKS   UPON    ME. 

Behind  all  the  murderous  attacks  which  have  been  made 
upon  us,  was  the  Press. 

While  I  believe  that  God  is  protecting  us,  yet  there  is  really 
more  danger  in  this  quiet  than  there  was  during  the  mobs.  I 
have  been  warned  that  the  assassin's  stiletto  will|do  what  mob 
violence  failed  to  do. 

I  am  not  afraid  of  the  assassin's  stiletto.  I  am  thankful  to 
God  that  I  do  not  know  fear. 

If  I  have  injured  any  man,  let  that  man  come  forward  and 
show  me  wherein  I  have  injured  him,  and  I  will  make  the  fullest 
reparation  in  my  power. 

I  should  like  to  repay  ten  times  over  any  injury  that  I  have 
committed  against  my  fellowman. 

Some  people  are  afraid  of  losing  reputation.  Did  not  Christ 
become  of  no  reputation? 


302  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

The  only  way  for  a  man  to  fight  for  God,  and  win  men  to 
God,  is  to  lose  his  reputation,  not  his  character. 

His  character  and  his  reputation  are  two  different  things. 

Every  one  of  us  here  tonight  who  wants  to  obey  God,  stand 
and  tell  Him  so.  (Apparently  all  arose.) 

PRAYER   OF   CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me  Thy 
Holy  Spirit,  that  I  may  trust  Thee;  that  I  may  serve  Thee;  that  I  may  do 
right  to  all  men,  no  matter  what  it  costs.  Help  me  to  do  my  part  in  extend- 
ing Thy  Kingdom. 

Bless  Zion  everywhere.  Destroy  these  wicked  papers.  Deliver  the 
Press  from  the  evil  control  which  now  makes  it  so  wicked,  and  give  us  good 
men  to  control  the  Press,  for  Jesus'  sake. 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil.  And  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 
grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you,  bless 
you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


THURSDAY   EVENING    SERVICE. 


SERMON— THE    SHAMEFUL   PROSTITUTION   OF   THE   DAILY 

PRESS. 


South  Side  Zion  Tabernacle,  Thursday  Evening,  December  14,  1899. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing  Hymn  No.  318 

Dr.  Dowie  then  read  from  the  twenty-third  chapter  of  the 
Gospel  according  to  St.  Matthew,  closing  with  the  following 
prayer: 

May  God  bless  His  Word. 

Prayer  was  then  offered  by  Evangelist  Kennedy. 

Dr.  Dowie  then  delivered  the  following  address: 
INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight,  and  profitable  unto  this  people,  oh  Lord,  my  Strength 
and  my  Redeemer. 

I  have  noticed  one  thing  this  week  more  than  I  ever  have 
before — something  that  I  have  never  seen  in  my  ministry 
before.  I  have  noticed  that  the  people  are  so  completely 
convinced  that  the  newspaper  Press  is  of  the  Devil  that  they 
just  simply  do  not  care  to  hear  anything  more  about  it,  although 
thousands  have  listened  respectfully  to  my  discourses. 

I  desire  to  speak  of  the  shameful  prostitution  of  the  Press. 

I  have  on  this  desk  tonight  a  number  of  scrap  books  con- 
taining extracts  from  the  advertising  columns  of  the  daily 


ZION'S  HOLY    WAR.  303 

and  religious  Press,  showing  the  shameful  way  in  which  they 
are  prostituted  to  the  basest  purposes. 

Even  the  infidel  papers  refuse  to  print  many  of  the  adver- 
tisements which  are  accepted  by  some  of  these  so-called  Chris- 
tian papers. 

RELIGIOUS    PAPERS    GUILTY. 

The  Interior,  the  Epworth  Herald  and  the  Northwestern  Chris- 
tian Advocate  are  terrible  sinners  in  this  respect. 
For  instance: 

Don't  be  hard  up. — $2000  a  year  easy.  Gents  and  ladies  at  home  or 
traveling,  taking  orders,  using  and  selling  Platers. 

A  man  told  me  that  he  had  knowledge  of  the  details  of  this 
thing,  and  that  it  is  one  of  the  biggest  frauds  in  the  country. 
Another: 

Grand  Gift  Distribution  for  the  babies.  Beautifully  engraved  baby 
spoons  to  every  mother  in  America  who  has  not  received  any  of  our  other 
souvenir  gifts. 

You  can  get  them  for  two  cents.  Do  you  believe  that  you 
can  get  a  triple-plated  silver  spoon,  beautifully  engraved,  for 
two  cents?  It  is  a  deliberate  lie. 

I  have  calculated  that  at  the  very  least  half  a  million  dollars 
yearly  is  received  by  the  papers  of  this  city  for  advertising 
deliberate  stealing,  vice,  murder  and  fraud. 

Take  for  instance  this  advertisement  in  the  Daily  News: 

Any  person  owing  debts  in  any  amount  can  take  advantage  of  the  bank- 
ruptcy law;  it  relieves  you  of  all  judgments,  garnishments  and  debts  of 
every  character.  Competent  lawyer  will  conduct  case  at  reasonable  charge. 
For  full  information  address  N  188,  Daily  News. 

That  is  a  most  shameful  endeavor  to  get  people  to  come  to 
that  wretched  lawyer  for  the  purpose  of  getting  them  to  rob 
the  persons  whom  they  honestly  owe. 

Victor  Lawson,  the  man  who  advertised  that  thief,  ought  to 
be  put  in  prison. 

Again : 

Agents  everywhere  guaranteed  monthly  compensation  weekly  intro- 
ducing meritorious  preparations ;  small  investment  necessary ;  satisfaction 
assured;  particulars  and  five  hundred  money-making  secrets,  one  dime. 

Here  is  an  advertisement  of  the  bucket-shops.  It  says  if 
you  will  send  money  to  a  certain  man  here  in  the  city  he  will 
for  a  small  sum  enable  you  to  win  a  very  large  sum  of  money. 

STORY       OF     TERRIBLE       RESULTS       OF      ANSWERING      NEWSPAPER 
ADVERTISEMENTS. 

I  had  one  of  the  most  shameful  stories  sent  to  me  the  other 
day.  An  advertisement  stated  that  a  healthy,  strong  girl  from 
the  country  was  wanted.  They  would  give  her  $5  a  week  in 
a  quiet,  respectable  home  where  there  were  only  three  in  the 
family. 


304  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

This  poor  girl  had  lost  father  and  mother,  and  was  living 
with  her  aunt.  She  was  a  very  respectable,  good  girl,  but 
some  little  trouble  occurred,  and  she  answered  that  advertise- 
ment. 

They  received  her  very  nicely.  Everything  seemed  right, 
but  presently  she  found  that  she  was  in  a  house  of  ill-fame  dis- 
guised as  a  massage  parlor.  Suddenly  she  was  induced  to  enter 
a  room  where  a  perfectly  naked  man  was  presented  to  her. 

She  shrieked  as  if  she  had  become  insane.  She  was  a  per- 
fectly pure  girl,  and  she  fell  at  this  wretch's  feet  as  if  she  were 
dead.  They  took  her  out  and  tried  to  still  her  cries.  They 
gave  her  a  large  dose  of  morphine  to  stop  her  yelling,  and  got 
her  into  a  secluded  room.  There  they  starved  her  until  she 
was  almost  a  skeleton.  At  last  she  yielded,  after  being  cruelly 
wronged. 

A  good  man  went  into  this  massage  parlor,  not  knowing 
about  its  being  a  bad  place.  He  had  been  recommended  to 
take  a  massage  treatment.  He  was  suddenly  brought  into  a 
room  where  this  young  woman  went  on  with  actions  whidh  I 
cannot  explain  to  you;  they  were  too  deplorable.  She  had 
been  at  last  subdued.  The  man  arose  in  indignation,  saying, 
"How  dare  you  insult  me  like  that?  " 

The  girl  said,  "Oh,  do  you  mean  it?  Are  you  a  good 
man?" 

"Why,"  he  said,  "I  am  a  respectable  man.  I  have  a  wife 
and  children." 

Then  the  poor  girl  fell  upon  her  knees  and  cried,  "Oh,  hear 
my  story  of  how  I  have  become  a  prisoner  here  right  in  the 
center  of  this  city." 

Then  he  took  her  out  of  that  horrid  den,  thank  God,  and 
she  is  free  today  and  restored  to  friends  who  cared  for  her. 

That  came  out  of  one  of  the  advertisements  in  the  "Want 
Ads"  of  that  paper,  and  that  advertising  still  goes  on.  Victor 
Lawson  gained  a  few  cents,  and  the  poor,  friendless  girl  was 
beguiled  to  an  awful  doom. 

There  are  things  so  horrible  that  I  cannot  talk  of  them,  and 
I  cannot  print  them.  They  are  unspeakable. 

THE    PAPERS   ADVERTISE   USURERS. 

In  this  issue  of  the  Daily  News,  and  it  is  the  same  In  other 
papers,  you  will  see  that  these  are  some  of  the  advertisements 
which  are  deliberate  breaches  of  the  law,  of  which  the  Grand 
Jury  ought  to  take  notice0 

Here  is  one  of  many: 

Employes  holding  good  positions,  whose  general  standing  will  meet  the 
approval  of  our  credit  manager,  can  obtain  loans  from  $100  upward  on  their 
note  of  hand  without  mortgage  or  bill  of  sale,  at  an  average  rate  of  interest, 
all  expenses  included,  not  to  exceed  THREE  PER  CENT  per  month. 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  .305 

That  is  thirty-six  per  cent  per  annum.  That  is  more. than 
five  times  what  the  law  allows  as  the  legal  rate  of  interest  If 
tne  Grand  Jury  did  its  duty,  it  would  put  the  proprietor  of  the 
Record  and  of  the  Daily  News  and  all  the  Associated  Thieves 
of  the  Press  in  prison  for  being  accomplices  of  robbers,  anB 
sharers  of  their  plunder. 

There  are  places  which  are  advertised  here  which  are  charg- 
ing no  less  than  one  hundred  and  forty  per  cent  per  annum. 
The  papers  are  hand  and  glove  with  these  thieves. 

I  have  the  story  of  a  man  who  borrowed  $25  at  a  certain 
interest  which  he  has  been  trying  to  pay  off  for  three  years. 
He  owes  $37.50  now,  and  has  paid  in  all  $145. 

There  is  another  class  of  advertisements  which  the  papers 
indulge  in,  namely:  the  soothsayers,  the  clairvoyants,  the 
fortune-tellers. 

Some  of  them  are  so  ridiculous  that  it  does  not  seem 
credible. 

AN   INIQUITOUS,  LYING   ADVERTISEMENT. 

Last  Sunday's  Tribune  says : 

GOOD  FOR  FOURTEEN  DAYS. 

Chicago's  Leading  Clairvoyant,  Dr.  V.  K — — ,  -  —Cottage  Grove 
Avenue. 

Pay  what  you  please.    Reading  Free  if  Not  Correct.    Free  Tests  to  all. 

Sundays,  9  A.  M.  to  6  P.  M.     Daily,  9  A.  M.  to  8  P.  M. 

Tenth  Year  in  Chicago. 

A  Place  for  Refined  People.     Four  Elegant  Parlors. 

Five  hundred  callers  last  week,  and  400  Letters. 

All  Letters  Always  Answered  by  Return  Mail.     Enclose  stamp. 

A  CLAIRVOYANT  and   occult  worker;  tells   full  names,  descriptions, 
dates,  facts,  numbers;  removes  bad  influence,  witchcraft,  mysterious  feel- 
ings, jealousy,    bad  luck;   conquers  enemies;  joins  the  separated;,  makes 
marriages,  happy  homes;  cures  drunkenness,  deafness,  bad  eyes,  fits,  rheu- 
matism, nervousness,  worry,  depression,  stomach   trouble,    sleeplessness, 
neuralgia,  restlessness,  bad  habits,  and  all  long-standing  and  mysterious 
ailments;   reveals  everything  about  lovers,  courtship,  marriage,  children, 
-separation,  divorce,-  quarrels,  changes,  journeys,  accidents,  mistakes,  posi- 
tions, occupations,  law,  wills,  deeds,  papers,  mortgages,  lost,  absent,  stolen, 
.  friends,  enemies,,  claims,  collections,  pensions,  estates,  deaths,  insurance, 
investments,  partnerships,  business,  speculation,  mines,  stocks,  patents,  in- 
ventions; everything  you  wish  to  know;  if  you  will  succeed  in  a  new  under- 
.  taking;  make  a  change  in  business,  or  win  your  lawsuit;  if  domestic  troubles 
will  soon  end;  if  ambition  will  be  obtained;  if  lands  contain  mineral,  gas, 
.  onoil;  if  you  have  certain  successful  days;  if  you  are  loved;  how  to  suc- 
cee_cTm  your  profession;  the  business  you  should  follow;  if  love  affairs  will 
be  successful  or  speculation  prove  remunerative ;  if  sick  or  ailing,  you  will 
be  cured;  if  absent  friends  will  return  or  past  troubles  torment  you  in  the 
future;  at  what  age  you  are  likely  to  die;  what  diseases,  afflictions,  or  acci- 
Ydents  may'cbme;  whether  your  friends  are  trustworthy;  should  you  take  a 
partner  in  business;  if  you  will   enjoy  the  luxuries  of  wealth;  if  you  may 
wish  a  knowledge  of  future  general  events.     Your  desires  in  regard  to  the 
above  or  any  question- that  vitally  concerns  you  can  be  fully  realized. 
;,    Jf  affairs  of  the  heart  or  emotions  of  love  interest  you,  he  gives. exact 
and 'truthful  revelations  of  all  loye  affairs;  settles  lovers'  quarrels;  enables 
'  yoiKo  win  the  esteem  and  affection  of  any  one  you  desire  ;  causes  speedy 


306  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

and  happy  marriages;  tells  if  the  one  you  love  is  true;  also  date  of  mar- 
riage ;  restores  lost  affection,  peace  and  confidence  to  lovers  and  discord- 
ant families ;  gives  you  the  full  secrets  how  to  control,  fascinate  and  charm 
the  one  you  love,  also  that  you  meet,  and  how  to  make  a  person  at  a  dis- 
tance think  of  you. 

Now,  to  show  those  who  really  believe  in  the  genuine  clairvoyant  power 
where  to  go  for  a  genuine  and  true  clairvoyant,  pay  what  you  please.  This 
is  not  done  to  gather  curiosity  seekers  or  to  catch  cheap  business  or  the 
rabble,  but  to  show  those  who  have  money  where  to  go  for  reliable  work; 
and  if  this  does  not  satisfy  and  convince  you  of  the  truth,  nothing  on  earth 
will.  Only  one  in  the  world  advertising  "  Pay  what  you  please."  All  let- 
ters always  answered.  Enclose  stamp.  K also  develops  mediums 

for  public  work.  Charms  for  all  purposes  given  free.  Questions  answered 
free.  Hours  9  A.  M.  to  8  P.  M.  daily;  Sundays  9  A.  M.  to  6  P.  M.  Look  for  this 
ad  in  Sunday  Tribune  only.  No  curosity  seekers  wanted. 

Now,  I  ask  you,  does  any  one  with  any  sense  in  the  world 
believe  that  any  man  has  the  power  to  do  the  things  that  this 
man  claims? 

Voices—"  No." 

Dr.  Dowie — Why,  it  is  a  lie  upon  the  face  of  it,  and  a  fraud. 

Where  should  the  proprietor  of  the  Tribune  be?  If  men  like 
the  Tourville  brothers  are  to  be  sent  to  jail,  should  not  those 
who  have  opened  their  columns  and  advertised  them  be  sent  to 
prison,  too?  And  this  man  has  been  helped  to  steal  from  the 
people  for  ten  years. 

That  paper  can  falsely  declare  God's  work  in  Zion  to  be  a 
"fake."  Can  it  be  wondered  at  when  it  is  the  promoter  of 
shameless  stealing? 

THE     PRESS     SHOULD     SHARE     THE     PUNISHMENT     DESERVED     BY 

THE    THIEVES. 

If  I  were  not  a  minister  and  had  not  my  hands  full,  and  were 
a  lawyer,  I  should  take  this  thing  up  myself  and  go  before  the 
Grand  Jury,  and  I  should  demand  indictments  of  these  papers 
for  aiding  and  abetting  scoundrels,  murderers,  liars  and  th  eves. 
When  Zion  gets  strong  enough  we  will  have  a  legal  department, 
and  I  will  give  the  Grand  Jury  some  business  before  I  am 
through. 

There  is  a  class  of  advertisements  which  I  do  not  dare  to 
read.  They  have  been  appearing  for  years. 

After  some  computation  I  think  that  advertisers  of  this 
class  must  pay  at  least  $100,000  a  year  to  the  five  daily  morn- 
ing papers. 

THE    PRIVATE     HOSPITAL    MURDERERS    AIDED    AND    ABETTED   BY 

THE    PRESS. 

They  advertise  private  hospitals  for  women. 

I  have  the  positive  knowledge,  given  to  me  by  one  of  the 
penitent  women  connected  with  this  hospital  business,  that  in 
the  particular  establishment  with  which  she  was  connected  there 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  307 

were,  on  the  average,  forty  babies  torn  from  their  mothers  and 
burned  up  in  a  furnace  every  month. 

She  asked  me  to  say  this,  but  to  spare  her,  that  she  may 
not  go  to  prison.  She  is  broken-heartedt  She  was  driven  into 
this  by  a  man,  now  dead,  who  held  a  revolver  to  her  head  and 
compelled  her  to  do  it. 

At  a  low  computation  more  than  five  hundred  of  the  fallen 
women  who  every  year  come  in  from  the  country  to  undergo 
illegal  operations  are  murdered  in  Chicago. 

The  coroner's  office  accepts  certificates  of  death  from 
certain  duly  qualified  officers  of  the  highest  ostensible  respect- 
ability, who  give  their  certificates  for  money,  when  they  know 
that  these  women  die  from  illegal  operations. 

There  are  scores  of  men  in  this  city  for  whom  the  hang- 
man's rope  is  dangling.  But  I  will  keep  back  some  of  the 
things  until  the  time  comes.  I  have  dared  the  doctors  to  deny 
some  of  my  allegations,  and  have  said  that  if  they  dispute 
them,  I  will  enter  the  fight  in  the  courts  and  prove  scores  of 
doctors  to  be  qualified  for  the  gallows. 

They  have  their  "baby  farms"  in  some  of  the  most  fashion- 
able portions  and  hotels  in  this  city.  They  find  the  lady  who 
is  in  trouble.  She  simply  comes  to  the  hotel,  registers,  under 
an  assumed  name,  as  a  guest,  gets  a  nurse,  and  the  whole  thing 
is  managed  in  the  most  gentlemanly  and  polished  manner 
possible. 

The  babe  is  murdered,  often  before  it  is  ready  to  be  born, 
and  sometimes  in  such  an  operation  the  woman  dies. 

But  they  mostly  agree  that  the  baby  shall  be  born.  Then 
they  take  a  pair  of  forceps  and  crush  the  brain  of  that  baby 
into  a  pulp,  and  the  bodies  are  cremated. 

The  accursed  papers  advertise  these  things,  and  are  making 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars  out  of  them. 

I  say  before  God  that  this  Press  is  not  only  Ungodly  and 
Unclean,  but  it  is  Criminal. 

I  would  rather  break  stones  in  the  streets  than  be  a  partaker 
in  such  criminal  advertisements. 

Where  is  the  law?  Where  is  justice?  Blind,  and  will  not 
move. 

What  about  the  people?  Oh,  they  say:  "That  is  not  my 
business.  Am  I  my  brother's  keeper?  Am  I  my  sister's 
keeper?  If  people  will  get  into  trouble,  what  have  I  to  do 
with  it?" 

The  Church  of  the  Living  God  must  stand  up  and  do 
something. 

I  am  told  that  if  I  publish  some  of  the  things  which  I  have 
said,  I  shall  be  shot.  Threatened  men  live  long.  I  care 
nothing  for  these  threats.  I  say  these  things  boldly,  in 
Christ's  Name,  and  I  intend  to  publish  them. 


308  ZION'S   HOLY   WAR. 

The  shameful  prostitution  of  the   Press  is  beyond  expres- 
sion.    The  Church  of  God    recognizes    that  these  things  are 
foing  on  in  a  measure,  and  it  is  too  cowardly  to  expose  and  to 
ght  these  enemies  of  God. 

Now  every  one  who  desires  a  perfect  freedom  which  dispels 
all  fear,  arise  and  seek  it  from  God. 

PRAYER   OF   CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me  Thy 
Holy  Spirit,  that  I  may  do  right;  that  I  may  confess  my  sin  to  any  whom  I 
may  have  wronged;  that  I  may  put  away  all  sin.  Give  me  the  power  which 
delivers  me  from  fear.  Give  me  therefore  that  perfect  love  that  will  take 
away  fear,  for  Jesus'  sake.  Amen.  (All  repeat  the  prayer,  clause  by  clause, 
after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

The  meeting  was  then  closed  with  the  following 

BENEDICTION. 


Peace 

Soul 

Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 

grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 

Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide  ;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you,  bless 

and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.    Amen. 


FRIDAY    EVENING    SERVICE. 


SERMON— THE    NEED    OF    PRESS   CENSORSHIP   AND   OF  AN 
HONEST  NEWSPAPER. 


North  Side  Zion  Tabernacle,  Friday  Evening,  December  15,  1899. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  Elder  Voliva  with  a  song  service. 
The  Scripture  lesson  was  read  by  Evangelist  Cantel. 
Elder  Excell  then  offered  prayer  and  the  tithes  and  offer- 
ings were  received. 

Dr.  Dowie  then  spoke  as  follows: 

INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight,  and  profitable  unto  this  people,  oh  Lord,  and  unto  all 
to  whom  these  words  shall  come,  for  the  sake  of  Jesus,  our  Lord,  our 
Strength  and  our  Redeemer. 

I  will  place  in  front  of  all  I  have  to  say  the  twenty-third 
chapter  of  the  Gospel  according  to  St.  Matthew,  the  thirteenth, 
fourteenth  and  fifteen  verses: 

TEXT. 

Woe  unto  you,  Scribes  and  Pharisees,  hypocrites!  because  ye  shut  the 
Kingdom  of  Heaven  against  men:  for  ye  enter  not  in  yourselves,  neither 
suffer  ye  them  that  are  entering  in  to  enter. 

Woe  unto  you,  Scribes  and  Pharisees,  hypocrites!  for  ye  devour  widows' 
houses,  even  while  for  a  pretense  ye  make  long  prayers :  therefore  ye  shall 
receive  the  greater  condemnation. 


Z 'ION'S  HOLY    WAR.  3O9 

Woe  unto  you,  Scribes  and  Pharisees,  hypocrites !  for  you  compass  sea 
and  land  to  make  one  proselyte ;  and  when  he  is  become  so,  ye  make  him 
two-fold  more  a  son  of  hell  than  yourselves. 

Dr.  Dowie  then  reviewed,  briefly,  the  witnessing  of  the 
week  against  the  Press. 

Tonight  I  desire  to  plead  for  a  Censorship  of  the  Press, 
and  for  an  Honest  Newspaper. 

A  CENSOR  TO  ACT  AS  A  JUDGE  BETWEEN  THE  PEOPLE  AND  THE 

PRESS. 

What  is  a  Censorship?  A  Censor  is,  properly  speaking,  a 
Judge  of  Morals.  In  the  sense  in  which  I  am  going  to  use  the 
term,  a  Censor  would  require  to  judge  not  what  shall  go  into 
the  papers — that  I  do 'not  think  is  possible;  but  what  has  gone 
into  the  papers.  He  would  hear  complaints  against  the  Press, 
and  be  especially  clothed  with  the  powers  of  law  to  punish  the 
offender. 

At  present  there  is  practically  no  redress  whatever.  Last 
year  the  Press  managed  to  get  a  law  passed  at  Springfield 
which  said  that  if  they  had  been  guilty  of  any  offense  in  their 
papers  in  the  way  of  libeling  any  persons,  they  were  to  be  at 
liberty  to  escape  all  punishment  by  simply  uttering  a  few  words 
of  apology.  The  consequence  was  that  when  I  once  deter- 
mined to  punish  a  newspaper  which  had  lied  about  me  in 
glaring  headlines,  that  newspaper  published  an  apology,  a 
withdrawal  of  all  that  they  had  said,  in  a  little  local  notice  of 
about  four  lines  in  the  smallest  type  in  their  office.  They  put 
it  away  down  in  a  corner  of  the  paper  where  nobody  saw  it; 
but  the  lies  came  out  with  scare  headlines  and  filled  columns 
day  after  day.  But  that  "apology"  was  a  compliance  with  the 
law,  and  so  all  redress  is  denied. 

Thus  the  Press  can  practically  evade  the  law. 

I    WILL     NOT    PERMIT   THE     PRESS     TO    ATTACK     MY     MORAL    CHAR- 
ACTER. 

The  Press  has  said  every  evil  of  me  except  one,  I  gave  the 
Press  notice  if  ever  any  editor  of  any  paper  published  an  attack 
upon  my  moral  character,  and  said  that  I  have  ever  defiled  a 
woman  or  broken  my  marriage  vows,  I  would  go  for  that  editor 
and  put  him  in  prison.  That  is  the  only  thing  they  have  not 
done,  and  they  dare  not  do  it. 

I  would  not  be  fit  for  a  moment  for  the  leadership  of  this 
great  work  with  which  God  has  entrusted  me  if  I  permitted 
that  to  rest  upon  my  good  name. 

Whatever  else  they  may  call  me  comes  right  back  to  them, 
because  if  I  were  a  criminal  there  would  be  a  way  of  reaching 
me  by  law. 

If  they  could  make  a  charge  that  would  hold  together,  they 
would  imprison  me.  But  I  have  not  been  damaged  by  the 


310  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

newspaper  attacks  at  all,  for  they  have  only  advertised  Zion's 
work. 

Hence  I  do  not  know  that  I  am  really  in  need  of  protection 
from  the  Press. 

But  the  Press  has  gone  on  lying  until  it  is  intoxicated  with 
lies.  Its  writers  are  intoxicated  with  liquor,  tobacco;  many  of 
them  with  morphine,  others  with  their  dirty  passions.  The 
majority  of  the  writers  for  the  Press  are  not  in  possession  of 
their  faculties  at  any  time.  Hence  the  men  who  write  for  the 
newspapers  are  short-lived,  miserable  blowflies  who  buzz 
around  for  a  day  and  then  die  of  the  poison  they  have  delighted 
in.  They  are  seeking  an  opportunity  to  light  somewhere  and 
deposit  their  dirty  eggs  and  create  maggots  and  filth,  and  then 
die  in  their  sin  and  shame. 

It  is  time  that  there  should  be  a  law  which  would  establish 
a  Censorship. 

A  Judge  should  be  appointed  so  that  any  one  wronged  by 
the  Press  could  go  straight  before  the  Judge,  and  state  his  or 
her  own  case,  without  the  assistance  of  lawyers  at  all,  and 
receive  justice. 

A  poor  girl  who  is  virtuous,  and  is  sometimes  falsely  accused 
by  the  papers,  ought  to  have  a  right  to  say,  "Judge,  they  do 
me  wrong,"  and  get  her  rights. 

That  is  what  I  mean  by  Censorship. 

THE   SUSPENSION    OF   A    PAPER'S    PUBLICATION   A    FIT    PUNISHMENT 
OF    REPEATED    CRIMES. 

Every  paper  should  be  punished,  first,  by  being  fined. 

The  law  should  say,  for  example,  "  Fifty  Dollars  for  the 
first  offense;  Five  Hundred  Dollars  for  the  second  offense; 
Five  Thousand  Dollars  and  three  months'  imprisonment  for 
the  third  offense;  Ten  Thousand  Dollars  fine  and  a  year's  im- 
prisonment and  the  suspension  of  the  paper  for  a  year  for  the 
fourth  offense." 

That  would  bring  the  Chicago  "generation  of  vipers "  to 
realize  that  there  were  such  things  as  truth  and  justice. 

If  the  Press  is  honest  and  clean,  it  will  not  be  afraid  of 
Censorship. 

I  am  not  afraid  of  anybody  bringing  anything  against 
LEAVES  OF  HEALING. 

If  I  have  wronged  any  one  in  LEAVES  OF  HEALING,  if  I 
have  unintentionaly  said  anything  which  is  not  true  regard- 
ing anybody,  there  is  nobody  any  more  willing  than  I  am  to 
say  "I  am  sorry;  forgive  me."  I  would  be  glad  to  undo  any 
wrong  I  ever  did.  But  I  must  receive  proof  that  I  have 
arred. 

But 'these  daily  newspapers  are  not  honest,  and  are  not 
willing  to  subject  themselves  to  an  examination. 


ZIOWS  HOLY   WAR.  311 

The  time  has  come  when  this  Unclean,  and  Ungodly,  and 
Criminal  Press  must  be  taken  by  the  throat  and  dealt  with. 
It  cannot  do  what  it  likes.  They  who  write  for  papers  must 
do  right  as  well  as  anybody  else  in  this  commuaity. 

That  is  what  I  mean  by  a  Censorship.  Not  only  do  we 
appeal  for  a  Censor,  but  also  for  an  honest  newspaper. 

If  all  the  honest  people  in  Chicago  were  in  earnest  about 
this  matter,  do  you  not  think  they  could  get  it  very  quickly? 
But  the  honest  people  in  Chicago  are  not  as  united  as  the  bad 
people  are.  The  honest,  well-disposed  people  of  this  city  say, 
"  Let  it  alone,  it  doesn't  matter  to  me.  The  Press  doesn't  attack 
me;  I  don't  care." 

I  do  not  believe  there  ever  will  be  a  truly  honest  and  God- 
fearing newspaper  in  Chicago  until  Zion  prints  it. 

ZION    WILL    PRINT    AN    HONEST    NEWSPAPER. 

We  will  not  print  it  in  Chicago,  but  if  you  come  to  the  All- 
Night  Meeting  on  December  3ist,  I  will  show  you  the  location 
of  Zion  City,  and  will  tell  you  where  I  will  print  it.  We  will 
be  able  to  print  the  Zion  Evening  Star  and  the  Zion  Morning 
Sun,  in  our  own  little  City,  and  put  it  into  a  fast  train,  and 
have  it  sold  in  the  streets  of  Chicago  alongside  of  the  Daily 
Lyre.  (Laughter.) 

I  intend  to  be  editor-in-chief  myself.  We  will  take  care  of 
our  advertising  columns,  and  we  will  print  a  daily  paper  which 
will  tell  the  truth.  We  shall  have  abundant  reason,  no  doubt, 
to  take  the  other  daily  papers  every  night  and  morning  and 
spank  them  for  their  good. 

But  there  is  a  better  phase  than  that.  Why  should  not  a 
daily  paper  have  a  daily  sermon — the  daily  newspaper  telling 
of  Salvation,  Healing  and  Holy  Living  of  God's  people  through- 
out the  world?  Why  should  not  a  daily  newspaper  tell  of  the 
Healings  throughout  the  world?  A  cable  code  could  be  estab- 
lished and  messages  sent  from  our  Elders  in  all  lands,  telling 
of  God's  healing  power  manifested. 

For  instance,  take  Overseer  Mason  as  an  illustration. 

When  he  gets  to  China  he  will  understand  what  is  going  on. 

Would  not  a  monthly  letter  from  him  concerning  the  work 
in  China  be  interesting? 

Then  I  am  sending  officers  of  the  Church  to  Australia. 

Zion  has  officers  and  people  in  all  lands. 

Zion  will  have  an  honest  daily  newspaper,  and  an  interesting 
one. 

I  believe  the  people  are  sick  now  of  the  dirt  and  muck  that 
is  in  the  papers,  about  murders,  executions,  crimes  and  scandals. 

When  we  print  a  daily  paper  we  are  going  to  print  it  from 
new  type  and  new  presses.  We  will  have  a  clean  start,  and  I 
believe  that  we  can  make  that  paper  so  attractive  that  when 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

the  boys   call  out  on  the  street,  " Zion  Morning  Sun"   people 
will  run  to  buy  it. 

Every  one  who  desires  to  do  right,  stand  up  and  do  not  be 
ashamed.  Be  ashamed  to  sit  still.  Pray  with  me. 

PRAYER   OF   CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me 
power  to  do  right,  no  matter  what  it  costs.  Give  me  Thy  Holy  Spirit,  for 
Jesus'  sake.  Guide  me,  and  enable  me  to  do  right,  and  to  help  others,  in 
His  Name.  Amen.  (The  audience  repeat  the  prayer,  clause  by  clause, 
after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

Dr.  Dowie — Now  are  you  going  to  do  that? 
Voices— "Yes.;' 

Dn  Dowie — Live  it.  We  do  not  say  one  thing  in  Zion  and 
do  another.  That  is  the  power  of  Zion. 

The  meeting  was  closed  by  the  Doxology  and  the 

BENEDICTION. 

-  Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil.  And  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 
grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide ;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you,  bless 
yoji  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 


PRELUDE— THE  MESSENGER  OF  THE  COVENANT.  SERMON 

—BAD  BOOKS  AND  BAD  PICTURES  THE  ENEMIES  OF 

THE  HOME,  CHURCH  AND  NATION, 


THE  closing  weeks  of  Zion's  Three  Months'  Holy  War 
Against  the  Hosts  of  Hell-  in  Chicago  were  especially 
devoted  to  a  sustained  attack  upon  the  vicious  products  of  the 
printing  press,  which  are  ruining  so  many  men,  women,  boys, 
girls  and  families. 

During  the  week  between  December  roth  and  December 
i:7th  the  General  Overseer  spoke  seven  times  before  thousands 
of  people,  concerning  the  uncleanliness,  ungodliness  and  vile 
criminality  of  the  newspapers,  secular  and  "religious,"  espe- 
cially in  the  matter  of  advertising  those  who-  defrauded, 
robbed,  ruined  and  even  murdered  their  victims. 

On  Lord's  Day  afternoon,  December  i^th,  before  a  magni- 
ficent audience  in  Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  the  General  Over- 
seer fearlessly  exposed  the  debasing,  blighting  effect  of  Bad 
Books  and  Bad  Pictures  upon  those  who  were  decoyed  into 
reading  them  and  cultivated  a  passion  for  them. 

The  man  of  God  showed  how  criminal  .advertising  and  Bad 
Books  supplemented  each  other  in  the  destruction  of  the 
characters  and  even  the  lives  of  the  people,  and  related  many 
touching  incidents  to  illustrate. 

He  then  pointed  out  the  great  necessity  of  prayerful  care 
on  the  part  of  parents  in  the  matter  of  providing  reading  for 
their  children.  He  then  spoke  of  the  beneficial  influence  of 
all  good  books,  and  closed  with  an  eloquent  tribute  to  that 
best  of  Books,  which  all  in  Zion  love,  A.  w.  N. 


THE    MESSENGER  OF  THE  COVENANT. 

Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  Lord's  Day  Afternoon,  December  17,  1899. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing  Hymn  No.  318: 

Am  I  a  soldier  of  the  cross — 

A  follower  of  the  Lamb? 
And  shall  I  fear  to  own  His  cause, 

Or  blush  to  speak  His  Name? 

CHORUS— In  the  Name  of  Christ  the  King, 

Who  has  purchased  life  for  me, 
Through  grace  I'll  win  the  promised  crown, 

Whate'er  my  cross  shall  be. 
War— 313 


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ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  31$ 

The  Scripture  lesson  was  read  from  the  nineteenth  chapter 
of  the  Acts  of  the  Apostles.  Prayer  was  offered  by  Dr.  Dowie, 
at  the  close  of  which  all  joined  in  repeating  the  Lord's 
Prayer. 

Dr.  Dowie  in  his  introductory  talk  then  said: 

CONCERNING   THE    MESSENGER    OF   THE    COVENANT. 

The  time  has  come  for  a  great  onward  step  in  Zion,  for 
which  God  has  gradually  prepared  us.  It  has  been  my  privi- 
lege to  be  simply  in  all  this  matter  His  Messenger.  Whether 
you  use  the  definite  or  indefinite  article  will  not  offend  me. 
You  may  call  me  a  Messenger  of  God's  Covenant,  or  you  may 
call  me  the  Messenger;  but  you  cannot  make  me  either  the  one 
or  the  other.  No  man  can  make  or  unmake  a  Divine  Messen- 
ger. He  is  God's  making,  as  well  as  God's  sending. 

At  this  point  I  may  just  as  well  say  a  word  or  two  concern- 
ing criticisms  which  have  been  offered  in  connection  with  that. 
The  declaration  of  some  is  that  it  is  blasphemy  for  any  man  to 
be  so  considered,  inasmuch  as  the  Messenger  of  the  Covenant 
is  Christ  Himself. 

Look  at  your  Bibles  at  Malachi  3:1-6. 

In  the  Old  Version  the  passage  reads: 

Behold,  I  will  send  My  Messenger,  and  He  shall  prepare  the  way 
before  Me:  and  the  Lord,  whom  ye  seek,  shall  suddenly  come  to  His 
Temple ;  even  the  Messenger  of  the  Covenant,  whom  ye  delight  in :  behold, 
he  shall  come,  saith  the  Lord  of  Hosts. 

A  close  reading  of  that  passage  would  show  you  that  there 
was  a  gross  blunder  in  the  translation.  Apart  from  everything 
else,  it  changes  the  speech  in  a  manner  which  indicates  a  most 
absurd  grammatical  construction  which  would  never  occur  in 
careful,  let  alone  inspired,  writing.  In  the  Revised  Version 
the  error  is  corrected. 

It  reads  thus: 

Behold,  I  send  My  Messenger,  and  He  shall  prepare  the  way  before 
Me:  and  the  Lord,  whom  ye  seek, shall  suddenly  come  to  His  Temple;  and 
the  Messenger  of  the  Covenant,  whom  ye  delight  in,  behold,  he  cometh, 
saith  the  Lord  of  Hosts. 

THE  MESSENGER  OF  THE  COVENANT  IS  A  MAN  AND  NOT  THE 

LORD. 

The  wnole  connection  shows  that.  The  fact  that  this  Mes- 
senger is  to  speak  and  act  so  that  God's  people  shall  offer  unto 
the  Lord  sacrifices  in  righteousness,  shows  it.  If  the  Mes- 
senger is  to  prepare  the  people  to  offer  unto  the  Lord  offerings 
in  righteousness,  the  Messenger  cannot  be  the  Lord  Himself. 
He  is  to  prepare  the  way  before  the  Lord. 

It  is  perfectly  clear  that  the  Messenger  of  the  Covenant  and 
the  Lord  Himself  are  two  different  persons;  just  as  different 
as  John  the  Baptist  and  Jesus  Christ.  In  regard  to  John  the 


316  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

Baptist  it  was  so  used  in  the  first  chapter  of  the  Gospel  accord- 
ing to  St.  Mark: 

The  beginning  of  the  Gospel  of  Jesus  Christ,  the  Son  of  God. 

Even  as  it  is  written  in  Isaiah  the  prophet. 

Behold,  I  send  My  Messenger  before  thy  face, 

Who  shall  prepare  thy  way; 

The  Voice  of  one  crying  in  the  wilderness, 

Make  ye  ready  the  way  of  the  Lord, 

Make  His  paths  straight. 

John  the  Messenger  came  and  prepared  Christ's  way. 

In  the  latter  days,  whoever  that  Messenger  is  to  be,  he  will 
be  a  man,  not  God. 

I  do  not  care  whether  you  use  the  definite  or  indefinite  arti- 
cle, as  far  as  I  am  concerned.  If  I  am  the  Messenger  of  the 
Covenant,  then  I  am.  You  cannot  make  me  that  and  you  can- 
not unmake  me.  If  I  am  only  a  messenger,  one  of  many,  then 
I  am  "a"  Messenger,  and  I  cannot  be  "the"  Messenger. 

God  said  He  would  send  a  man  who  would  be  "'The  Messen- 
ger of  the  Covenant." 

The  thing  which  I  have  been  doing  for  many  years-  has  been 
to  proclaim  the  Covenants  of  God,  their  glorious  Blessings 
when  their  conditions  are  fulfilled,  and  the  Sin  of  neglecting 
them. 

I  HAVE  STOOD  UPON  THE  COVENANTS  IN  ALL  MY  PREACHING. 

I  have  declared  that  the  Covenant  which  God  has  entered 
into  with  His  people  is  aCovenant'of  Salvation,  and  of  Heal- 
ing, and  of  Cleansing.  The  Covenant,  "I  am  the  Lord  that 
healeth  thee,"  which  God  made  at  the  waters  of  Marah,  still 
continues  the  same.  The  Covenants  are  unchanged  and 
unchangeable. 

God  said  at  the  waters  of  Marah: 

If  thou  wilt  diligently  hearken  to  the  Voice  of  Jehovah  thy  God,  and  wilt 
do  that  which  is  right  in  His  sight,  and  wilt  give  ear  to  His  commandments, 
and  keep  all  His  statutes,  I  will  (permit  to  be)  put  .none  of  the  diseases  upon 
thee,  which  I  have  (permitted  to  be)  put  upon  the  Egyptians:  for  I  am  the 
Lord  that  healeth  thee. 

"I  am  Jehovah-Rophi;  I  am  thy  Healer."  That  is  the  Cov- 
enant, and  that  Covenant  will  never  be  broken,  .thank  God. 
(Amen.)  I  simply  proclaim  the  Covenants;  the  Covenant  of 
Jehovah-Rophi,  I  am  the  Lord  that  healeth  thee,  as  well  as 
that  of  Jehovah-Tsidkenu,  I  am  the  Lord  thy  righteousness. 

I  declare  in  the  Name  of  the  Most  High  God  that  the 
Church  which  has  given  up  Divine  Healing  is  apostate.  What 
God  hath  joined  together  no  man  dare  put  asunder.  (Anten.) 
That  is  my  Message.  That  has  been  the  Message  I  have5feeeft 
thundering  out  these  years.  That  is  the  Message  which  is 
reaching  all  the  world  today,  thank  God.  (Amen.) 

If  anybody  can  speak  it  better  than  I,  may  God  grant  that 
they  shall,  and  soon.  (Amen.)  I  am  very,  willing  to  give 


ZfON'S  HOLY   WAR.  317 

place  to  any  one  else  who  can  lead  this  movement  better  than 
I  can.  But  God,  not  men,  must  show  me  my  successor. 

The  Messenger  of  God's  Covenant  has  a  pretty  hard  time 
of  it  in  a  world  which  does  not  believe  in  God  or  His  Cove- 
nant, and  in  a  Church  which  has  departed  from  God  and  will 
not  keep  His  Covenants. 

I  say  this  because  it  has  pleased  some  persons  in  this  city 
to  speak  very  impertinently  and  disrespectfully  of  me  in  con- 
sequence of  what  I  have  said.  Now,  what  I  have  said  I  have 
said;  what  I  have  written  I  have  written;  what  I  have  done  I 
have  done;  and  I  leave  that  to  God,  and  to  the  good,  sound 
judgment  of  His  people.  When  God  makes  known  to  me  what 
my  mission  is,  I  am  not  going  to  back  down. 

"By  what  authority  doest  thou  these  things?"  is  often 
asked. 

In  reply  to  that  question  Jesus  asked  them,  "The  Baptism 
of  John,  whence  was  it?  from  heaven?  or  of  men?" 

If  John  the  Baptist  did  not  have  authority,  he  ought  not  to 
have  spoken  as  he  did.  The  Baptism  of  John  was  either  from 
heaven  or  from  men,  and  my  baptism  is  either  of  men  or  of 
G6d. 

My  appeal  is  to  God  in  this  matter,  and  God  has  answered 
me/  If  we  could  get  a  reliable  roll  of  our  people  throughout 
the  world,  we  would  find  that  the  Church  of  which  I  am  the 
General  Overseer  has  grown  from  less  than  five  hundred  per- 
sons, three  years  and  ten  months  ago,  to  fully  forty  thousand. 
(Amen,)  I  thank  God  for  that. 

The  proof  is  not  in  the  mere  growth  in  numbers,  but  it  is  in 
the  fact  that  every  Christian  denomination  in  the  United  States 
of  America,  in  Europe  and  elsewhere,  is  beginning  to  listen  to 
this  Voice  wtych  says,  "You  are  apostate;  you  have  gone  back 
upon  God,  and  you  have  broken  your  Covenant  with  God." 

ZION   WILL    STAND    BY   THE    COVENANTS   OF   GOD. 

Our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  came  to  fulfil  the  law  and  the  prophets, 
and  He  fulfilled  them.  In  the  latter  times  some  one  is  to 
come  and  call  the  attention  of  the  world  before  the  coming  of 
the  Lord,  to  the  Covenant  of  God,  that  He  will  cleanse  the 
souls  and  bodies  of  His-  people,  and  write  His  law  in  their 
hearts,  and  that  is  what  Zion  is  proclaiming.  (Amen.) 

It  may  please  some  persons  to  sneer,  but  it  does  not  hurt 
us.  The  wits  of  such  people  are  very  cheap,  and  it  is  exceed- 
ingly easy  for  them  to  sneer;  but  you  cannot  sneer  Zion  out  of 
existence.  -.Ar 

It  will  take  a  good  deal  more  than  a  sneer  to  move  me  from 
my  position.  Thanks  be  to  God,  with  all  humility,  but  with  all 
courage,  I  shall  maintain  the  position  that  Zion  is  Zion,  and  is 
here  for  the  purpose  of  declaring  the  Covenant  of  God,  and  pf 


318  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

going  right  into  the  van  of  progress  in  connection  with  the 
Church  of  God,  and  demanding  of  the  whole  Church  of  God, 
of  every  one  who  is  in  the  Kingdom  of  God,  that  they  shall 
fulfil  their  Covenant  with  God,  and  then  God  will  fulfil  His 
Covenant  with  them.  There  are  many  Covenants,  but 

THE    COVENANT   WHICH    COVERS    EVERYTHING 

is  that  one  Common  Faith  which  is  comprised  in  the  one  Lord, 
the  one  Faith,  and  the  one  Baptism.  That  one  God  is  in  three 
Persons:  Father,  Son  and  Holy  Ghost.  That  one  Baptism  is 
into  the  three  Names:  Father,  Son  and  Holy  Ghost.  That 
one  Faith  covers  three  things:  Salvation,  Healing  and  Holy 
Living.  This  is  God's  Covenant. 

We  will  not  make  any  mistake  if  we  stand  firmly  by  that. 
You  cannot  make  me  "the"  Messenger  and  you  cannot  make 
me  "a  "  Messenger  Your  claiming  me  to  be  this,  that  and  the 
other  thing  would  not  constitute  me  that,  and  your  refusing  to 
admit  my  claim  would  not  alter  the  fact. 

A  man  in  the  Kingdom  of  God,  a  man  in  the  Church  of 
God,  has  exactly  the  place  which  God  gives  him.  You  cannot 
make  him  an  apostle  when  he  is  not.  You  cannot  create  a  man 
a  minister;  because  of  ministers  of  God  it  may  be  said  as  of 
poets:  Poeta  nascitur,  non  fit — "A  poet  is  born,  not  made." 

Men  are  born  to  take  their  destined  place  in  the  Church  of 
God,  and  they  cannot  be  manufactured  by  any  theological  sem- 
inary, thank  God. 

Votes  cannot  make  a  fallible  Cardinal  an  Infallible  Pope. 
Votes  can  do  nothing  in  the  Kingdom  of  God. 

The  Rev.  R.  A.  Torrey,  of  the  Moody  Institute,  has  lately 
been  trying  to  make  capital  out  of  this  matter  of  the  Messenger 
of  the  Covenant.  He  is  apparently  working  up  for  a  spanking, 
and  in  due  time  he  will  get  it,  as  did  one  greater  than  he,  if  he 
does  not  desist:  for  I  do  not  propose  to  take  any  impudence 
from  an  apostate  and  a  coward. 

He  has  been  wicked  enough  to  tell  his  congregations  that  I 
have  made  blasphemous  and  even  Antichristian  assumptions. 
You  all  know  that  I  have  no  desire  to  assume  anything  which 
God  has  not  given  to  me.  But  when  God  has  given  to  me  a 
Message  and  a  position,  I  should  be  a  coward  if  I  did  not 
assume  it  when  He  was  graciously  and  manifestly  endowing 
me  with  that  office,  and  giving  to  me  its  power.  I  accept  it 
with  great  humility. 

GOD  CHOOSES  NOT  AS  MAN  WOULD  CHOOSE. 

None  can  be  more  surprised  than  I  am  at  the  infinite  good- 
ness and  grace  of  God  who  is  pleased  to  take  a  man  so  full  of 
imperfections,  and  not  a  man  such  as  He  might  have  taken;  but 
it  has  pleased  God  in  all  the  ages  to  do  this. 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

When  God  needs  a  man  He  takes  him  from  the  place  where 
men  would  least  expect  him  to  be  taken. 

When  they  wanted  a  deliverer  for  this  country  in  its  time 
of  national  peril,  they  chose  not  Yale  professors  nor  Harvard 
graduates,  but  it  pleased  God  to  take  Abraham  Lincoln,  the 
rail-splitter,  and  Ulysses  Grant,  the  tanner,  and  by  these  means 
preserve  the  Nation,  suppress  the  rebellion,  and  set  free  the 
slave. 

God  is  pleased  to  take  men  whom  the  world  would  never 
have  taken — men  who  shocked  the  learned  pundits. 

A   WARNING   TO   TRAITORS. 

I  may  yet  let  the  world  know  that  some  who  are  now  pro- 
claiming his  virtues  were  critics  of  Mr.  Moody  and  traitors  in 
heart  while  they  were  professing  to  be  his  followers. 

I  am  utterly  disgusted  with  the  recantation  of  their  belief 
and  practice  as  to  Divine  Healing,  because  poor  Mr.  Moody 
said  that  they  must  not  say  that  the  Lord  was  the  Healer, 
but  that  they  must  stand  with  him  in  his  denunciation  of  the 
doctrines  taught  in  Zion,  and  especially  the  doctrine  that 
disease  was  from  the  Devil. 

Mr.  Moody  had  scarcely  uttered  the  statement  before  he 
got  into  the  hands  of  the  Devil  and  the  doctors,  his  agents. 
And  where  is  he  today? 

My  heart  is  sore  to  see  so  good  a  man  missing  so  great  a 
truth  and  so  great  a  blessing,  who  might  have  been  used  of  God 
in  the  extension  of  the  Full  Gospel  of  the  Kingdom  of  God, 
but  who,  from  envy  and  ignorance,  rejected  the  Gospel  and 
the  Covenant  of  Divine  Healing. 

I  am  going  to  maintain  this  Covenant  of  Divine  Healing, 
and  all  the  other  Covenants  connected  with  it,  to  the  whole 
wide  world,  come  what  will.  (Amen  and  applause.) 

I  do  not  forget  the  good  things  Brother  Moody  has  done. 
He  has  been  a  blessing,  but  I  am  sorry  that  in  the  last  years  of 
his  life  he  should  allow  ignorance  and  envy  to  come  in  and 
reject  the  counsel  of  God,  and  say  bitter  things  about  a  brother 
minister  who  has  sincerely  loved  him. 

Today  I  have  been  praying  earnestly  for  Mr.  Moody,  and 
praying  this  week  that  God  would  just  help  him  to  see  that 
his  present  trouble  will  never  be  over  until  he  quits  these 
doctors,  and  puts  his  body,  soul  and  spirit  in  God's  hands. 
(Amen.)  If  he  will  not  do  that,  he  will  pass  away,  and  that 
will  be  a  loss.  I  do  not  hesitate  to  say  that — a  loss.  I  can 
say  that  and  say  what  I  have  said  also. 

WHEN    MEN   WILL   NOT    DO    RIGHT,    GOD    PUTS   THEM    ASIDE. 

No  matter  who  they  are,  whether  it  is  John  Alexander 
Dowie  or  Dwight  L.  Moody,  God  will  put  them  aside.  When 
Elijah  fails  God  says,  "I  will  have  to  take  you  to  heaven, 


320  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

you  miserable  fellow  lying  down  here.  You  are  the  'only 
one  left!'  Get  out  of  here."  And  He  took  him  up  to 
heaven. 

There  are  some  people  taken  to  heaven  because  they  are  no 
more  use  on  earth.  They  hinder  things.  Elijah  had  to  make 
way  ior  Elisha,  and  DwightL.  Moody  will  have  to  make  way 
for  .somebody  else;  and  if  John  Alexander  Dowie  should  ever 
become  a  fool  of  the  same  kind,  he  would  have  to  make  way, 
too.  The  sooner  that  he  makes  way,  if  he  stands  in  the  way 
of  the  Kingdom  of  God,  the  better.  [The  reader  will 
please  observe  tliat  these  words  were  spoken  in  Chicago  exactly 
one  week  before  Mr.  Moody  died  in  Northfield,  Massachusetts.— 
ED.} 

.  Let  every  man  who  hinders  the  extension  of  the  Kingdom 
of  God  be  taken  away  quickly.  I  pray  for  it  every  day,  even 
if  some  of  them  have  to  be  sent  to  hell.  The  only  way  you 
can  get  rid  of  some  editors  of  some  papers,  is  to  have  them 
sent  away  to  hell  :  for  their  "  hearts  are  fully  set  in  them  to  do 


Doctor,  is  that  not  hard?" 
No,  it  is  not.     It  is  the  best  place  for  some  people.     There 

Lti  some  chance  of  doing  something  for  them  after  they  get 
there.     You  can  never  do  anything  with  them  here. 
"What  do  you  mean?" 
You'can  preach  to  them  better  when  they  get  there.    I  have 

i  a  very  profound  conviction  that  I  shall  preach  to  some  editors 
in  hell  if  God  ever  sends  me  there  to  look  after  them. 
(Laughter.)  I  have  some  funny  ideas,  perhaps,  you  think.  I 
have  the  idea  that  the  Christ,  who  was  the  best  and  holiest  of 
all,  went  down  to  preach  to  the  "spirits  in  prison."  If  I 
should  become  more  Christlikel  might  be  permitted  to  do  such 
a  work  as  that.  Only  He  who  came  from  heaven  was  ever 
fitted  to  preach  in  hell;  and  it  is  only  in  heaven  we  can  get  our 

"'fitness  for  that  glorious  work  of  "preaching  to  the  spirits  in 
prison,  who  were  disobedient  "  when  on  earth.  Jesus  did  that. 
"He  descended  into  hell,"  and  had  a  glorious  fight  and  triumph 
there.  I  long  to  follow  Jesus  everywhere;  and  I  believe,  by 
God's  Grace,  that  I  shall  follow  Him  to  hell:  for  my  heart 
goes  out  in  pity  and  love  for  the  "lost"  there  as  well  as  the 

-'-'•lost  '.'-here..:  May  I  be  "baptized  for  the  dead  "  as  well  as  for 
the  living.  Oh,  mothers  who  are  weeping  over  your  "lost  " 
sons'and  daughters  now  in  hell,  how  I  long  to  be  Gpd's  Mes- 

.:  sender  to  them  there.  Christ  must  conquer  everywhere.  He 
must  destroy  Death,  He  must  destroy  Hell,  and  I  thank  God  it 
is  .written  "Death  and  Hell  shall  be  cast  into  the  Lake  of 
Eire," 

I  want  to  see  Jesus   in     heaven,    and    go  just   where    He 
commands:  for  He  will  know  what  is  best.    But,  oh,  howl  long 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  321 

to  be    fitted    for  the  work   of    preaching  to  the   Myriads  of 
Hell. 

I    LIKE    FIGHTING   WHEN    IT   IS    FOR   THE    RIGHT. 

Some  person  said  to  me  one  day,  "Why  did  you  stay  in 
Chicago?"  I  said,  "Because  it  is  the  nearest  place  to  hell  I 
know."  (Laughter  and  applause.) 

I  find  good  fighting  there.  I  thought  if  I  could  win  in 
Chicago,  I  could  win  anywhere.  The  Devil  said  that  I  should 
not  stay,  and  that  was  another  reason  for  my  staying.  (Laugh- 
ter.) I  am  sometimes  a  little  doubtful  as  to  what  course  I 
shall  pursue  for  a  little  while,  but  when  the  Devil  says  "You 
shall  not  stay  here,"  then  I  know  what  course  to  pursue. 

The  tithes  and  offerings  were  then  received. 

BAD    BOOKS    AND    BAD    PICTURES    EXPOSED    AS 

THE  ENEMIES  OF  THE  HOME,  CHURCH 

AND  NATION. 


INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight,  and  profitable  unto  this  people,  oh  Lord,  my  Strength 
and  my  Redeemer. 

In  the  nineteenth  chapter  of  the  Acts  of  the  Apostles,  at 
the  nineteenth  verse: 

TEXT. 

And  not  a  few  of  them  that  practiced  curious  arts  brought  their  books 
together,  and  burned  them  in  the  sight  of  all :  and  they  counted  the  price 
of  them,  and  found  it  fifty  thousand  pieces  of  silver.  So  mightily  grew  the 
Word  of  the  Lord  and  prevailed. 

The  Scripture  here  gives  a  wonderful  story  of  some  things 
that  happened  at  Ephesus  in  the  early  teaching  of  the  Gospel. 

The  point  I  have  taken  in  the  story  is  that  there  were  a 
great  many  people  who  were  blessed  in  Ephesus  who  brought 
their  Bad  Books  together,  and  burned  them.  There  were  fifty 
thousand  pieces  of  silver  worth. 

I  was  looking  today  again  into  the  wrangling  of  the  com- 
mentators over  this,  and,  as  usual,  it  is  quite  amusing  to  see 
how  they  differ.  Some  of  them  think  that  the  price  calculated 
in  modern  value  would  be  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and 
fifty  pounds,  English;  others  two  thousand  pounds.  Some  say 
$7,500,  and  some  say  $10,000,  and  there  are  others  who  say  four 
times  that  sum.  Under  any  circumstances,  the  first  cost  of 
these  books  was  probably  at  least  $10,000,  and  may  have  been 
$40,000. 

That  was  a  wonderful  array  of  books  to  be  burnt  up,  but  it 
was  one  of  the  evidences  of  a  good  and  pure  and  wonderful 
power  which  had  come  upon  the  people  when  they  brought  their 
Bad  Books  to  be  utterly  destroyed. 


322  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

In  a  true  revival  of  religion,  you  have  always  practical 
results. 

Bad  Books  are  an  unmitigated  curse  all  around. 

This  is  a  tremendously  big  subject. 

It  is  a  very  astonishing  thing  to  me  that  in  this  city,  where 
there  are  government  officers  appointed  for  the  purpose  of 
bringing  these  matters  before  the  Federal  Court,  that  there  are 
no  prosecutions  of  immoral  and  indecent  papers. 

Take,  for  instance,  the  Police  Gazette.  It  is  unspeakably 
abominable.  The  men  who  print  it  and  the  people  who  read 
it  should  all  be  put  in  prison  with  the  people  who  sell  it. 
(Applause.)  It  is  unspeakably  abominable. 

Take,  for  another  instance,  all  those  ten-cent  and  five-cent 
novels  which  are  used  for  the  purpose  of  inflaming  little  boys' 
and  girls'  minds,  setting  forth  all  kinds  of  imaginary  heroism 
in  connection  with  cowboys,  Indian  guides,  and  all  kinds  of 
wild-goose  chases  in  which  they  are  led. 

A    MURDER    INCITED    BY    BAD    BOOKS. 

The  other  day,  you  remember,  there  was  a  poor  boy,  now 
waiting  in  prison  to  be  hanged,  who,  with  his  companion  in  a 
college  not  far  from  this  city,  was  a  continuous  reader  of  this 
literature.  They  got  their  minds  inflamed  to  such  an  extent 
that  they  started  out  with  revolvers  and  daggers  to  be  high- 
waymen. They  came  into  this  city,  knowing  a  young  man 
who  had  a  few  dollars  saved  who  had  been  in  the  same  college 
with  them.  They  went  to  his  room,  and  while  one  guarded 
the  door  the  other  went  in  and  deliberately  stabbed  this  young 
man  to  the  heart.  He  fell  dead,  and  they  took  his  money  and 
fled.  They  were  arrested  near  Grand  Crossing,  where  they 
were  imitating  the  ways  of  these  highwaymen  as  it  was  put 
forth  in  these  books.  They  were  lying  under  shelter,  and  in 
their  bags  was  found  a  whole  library  of  this  infernal  trash. 
They  told  the  court  that  the  books  had  made  them  what  they 
were — murderers. 

This  is  going  on  all  the  time.  If  the  papers  themselves 
would  tell  the  truth  as  to  the  number  of  boys  and  girls  who 
have  gone  into  lives  of  shame  and  robbery  through  this 
accursed  mass  of  bad  literature,  it  would  be  alarming  in  the 
extreme. 

Last  week  a  girl  was  arrested,  with  a  revolver  in  her  hand, 
for  housebreaking.  She  was  nineteen  years  of  age.  She  had 
been  reading  this  accursed  literature,  and  was  inflamed  with 
the  idea  that  she  could  become  a  successful  highwaywoman,  a 
successful  housebreaker.  They  at  last  got  on  her  tracks  and 
arrested  her.  I  dare  say  some  of  you  saw  the  pictures  of  her 
in  the  papers,  showing  her  entering  a  house  with  a  mask  on  her 
face  and  a  revolver  in  her  hand. 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  323 

That  very  picture  itself  was  enough  to  excite  the  imagination 
of  a  certain  class  and  to  produce  imitators. 

There  are  large  numbers  of  young  people  in  this  city,  four- 
teen years  of  age  and  less  than  that — some  of  them  seven  years 
of  age — who  get  drunk  every  night — I  do  not  say  some  nights, 
I  say  every  night — in  low  saloons.  There  are  a  large  number 
of  girls  who  go  to  these  dancing  saloons  and  to  these  low 
places.  And  you  will  find  that  these  boys  and  girls  have  been 
readers  of  this  vile  literature,  and  have  been  led  step  by  step  to 
where  they  are,  until  even  in  childhood  and  early  youth  they 
have  become  most  abandoned  wretches. 

These  are  not  of  the  lowest  class. 

I  had  a  most  painful  story  brought  to  me  in  connection  with 
Bad  Books  only  the  other  day. 

STORY  OF  RUIN  OF  YOUNG  WOMEN  BROUGHT  ABOUT  BY  BAD  BOOKS. 

A  man  in  this  city  was  utterly  heart-broken  because  his 
well-educated  daughter,  with  a  companion,  had  disappeared 
from  home.  He  had  plenty  of  money,  and  followed  them  to 
New  York.  There  these  two  girls  were  found  with  money 
which  they  had  stolen  from  their  parents,  and  raised  upon  their 
jewelry  that  they  had  sold.  They  were  living  in  a  state  of 
adultery  with  a  pack  of  thieves  with  whom  they  had  become 
acquainted. 

They  had  gone  down  to  the  lowest  parts  of  the  Bowery  of 
their  own  free  will,  and  had  become  acquainted  there  with  the 
vilest  thieves  of  New  York.  These  thieves  had  gone  with 
them  to  a  little  better  part,  where  they  had  sold  their  jewelry 
and  were  maintaining  these  scoundrels. 

These  splendidly-educated  girls  from  Chicago,  daughters  of 
men  of  high  station,  were-found  in  that  City  of  New  York  in 
that  condition.  When  they  were  brought  up  about  this  thing, 
and  investigation  was  made,  it  was  found  that  their  room  was 
just  crammed  with  this  class  of  literature;  with  Ouida's  love 
stories,  and  similar  disgusting  filth. 

They  were  readers  of  French  novels  of  the  most  shameful 
character.  There  were  a  number  of  Bad  Pictures  discovered  in 
their  room. 

I  was  told  about  the  whole  thing,  and  asked  if  I  would  do 
all  I  could,  while  I  used  the  incident,  to  keep  from  any  allusion 
that  could  give  further  grief  to  the  parents.  Of  course,  I 
promised  to  do  so. 

In  this  city  these  two  girls  moved  in  the  very  highest  and 
best  society.  No  one  could  imagine  that  they  had  such 
desires. 

Of  course,  all  this  was  suppressed.  Private  detectives  found 
them,  and  they  were  arrested  quietly,  and  their  parents  brought 


324  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

them  back  to  this  city.  They  are  in  this  city  now,  and  may 
God  give  them  a  true  repentance. 

It  is  not  the  rich  only,  nor  the  poor,  but  it  goes  through  all 
classes,  in  every  class  of  society. 

I  am  not  going  to  name  the  books,  because  if  I  do  there  are 
some  people  who  would  want  to  go  after  these  very  books 
because  I  named  them. 

EDITORIAL    CRIMINALS   SHOULD     BE    BROUGHT   TO   JUSTICE. 

If  I  only  had  time  and  had  a  Law  Department  in  Zion,  I 
should  set  our  Law  Department  to  work  upon  this  matter.  I 
will  promise  you  that  if  God  will  prosper  Zion,  as  I  believe  He 
will,  and  enable  us  to  establish  Zion  City,  there  is  one  depart- 
ment that  I  am  determined  to  add  to  that  City — a  Law  Depart- 
ment. 

In  the  Name  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  that  Department  of 
Zion  will  set  to  work  in  this  and  other  cities  and  bring  law- 
breakers before  the  courts  and  put  them  where  they  ought  to 
be.  (Applause.)  I  venture  to  say  that  many  of  these  law- 
breakers, if  they  do  not  mend  their  ways,  will  be  in  the  peni- 
tentiary before  I  am  through  with  my  work  on  earth.  Every 
proprietor  and  editor  of  every  one  of  the  daily  newspapers  in 
Chicago,  without  any  exception,  is  guilty  of  literary  crimes 
which  would  place  him  behind  prison  bars  if  the  State's  Attor- 
ney's Department  did  its  duty,  and  demanded  his  indictment 
by  the  Grand  Jury. 

The  newspapers  advertise  clairvoyants,  fortune  -  tellers, 
chattel-mortgage  thieves,  abortionists,  bucket-shop  thieves  and 
so-called  massage  parlors,  which  are  really  houses  of  ill-fame, 
where  innocent  girls  are  trapped  and  starved  into  submission. 
They  advertise,  under  a  very  innocent-appearing  guise,  "green 
goods"  men — counterfeiters.  Into  the  best  social  circles  they 
have  introduced  their  counterfeit  currency  and  coin. 

The  two  young  ladies  I  have  just  spoken  of  were  trapped 
into  passing  this  counterfeit  currency  amongst  their  friends. 
A  number  of  notes  and  counterfeit  bills  of  high  denominations 
were  found  in  their  apartments. 

BAD  ADVERTISING  AND  BAD  BOOKS  GO  TOGETHER. 

Certain  advertisements  in  the  religious  papers  are  a  decoy. 
They  lead,  for  instance,  boys  and  girls  to  enter  into  an  attempt 
to  sell  some  fake  article,  in  the  hope  of  receiving  presents  of 
real  gold  watches,  chains,  diamonds,  jewels.  All  this  is  prom- 
ised for  selling  that  which  is  worth  one  dollar  and  eighty  cents 
and  turning  in  the  money. 

Some  of  these  advertisements  are  the  first  step  to  bringing 
boys  and  girls  of  good,  religious  fathers  and  mothers  into  the 
trap  of  these  scoundrels,  who  lead  them  further,  and  make 
them  their  confederates  in  passing  bad  money. 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR,  325 

The  religious  and  the  secular  newspaper  press  is  being  used  in 
advertisements  and  otherwise  for  the  purpose  of  providing  vic- 
tims for  those  who  are  planning  to  get  innocent  persons  to 
be  confederates  in  the  vilest  of  crimes. 

I  came  recently  upon  a  certain  advertisement,  made  an 
investigation,  and  found  myself  investigating  a  Secret  Society 
which  will  murder  for  money. 

CONCERNING   THE   SUNDAY   NEWSPAPER. 

The  Sunday  newspaper  is  a  most  infernal  thing.  There  are 
thousands  and  tens  of  thousands  of  people  today  who  start  in 
the  morning  with  the  Sunday  newspapers  in  their  beds.  How 
many  of  them  are  in  their  beds,  still  reading  it?  They  scarcely 
get  up  to  their  dinner.  They  will  get  up  perhaps  about  half- 
past  one  or  two  o'clock  and  get  dinner.  They  generally  eat 
grossly. 

But  some  are  so  infatuated  with  the  stories  of  their  Sunday 
newspapers  and  their  novels,  and  other  articles,  that  nothing 
else  has  any  attraction  for  them.  The  House  of  God,  or  God's 
claims  upon  them,  never  come  into  their  minds.  They  are 
completely  shut  out  by  this  accursed  Sunday  newspaper. 
That  ought  to  be  stopped,  and  stopped  firmly. 

I  have  already  pleaded  for  a  Censorship  of  the  Press  in  my 
lecture  on  Friday  last  at  the  North  Side  Zion  Tabernacle. 
I  mean  by  a  Censor,  a  Judge  who  shall  hear  charges  against 
the  newspapers  for  the  things  which  they  have  already  pub- 
lished. 

For  instance,  a  girl,  left  an  orphan  with  some  money,  which 
she  has  since  lost,  has  told  me  her  story. 

SAD   ST9RY    OF   A    WELL-EDUCATED    GIRL     DECEIVED    BY   A   LYING 
ADVERTISEMENT. 

She  was  a  graduate  of  Vassar,  who  came  to  this  city, 
attracted  by  an  advertisement. 

A  physician  of  the  highest  standing  wanted  a  lady  secre- 
tary. There  was  every  protection  for  her  in  the  fact  that  he 
was  a  married  gentleman,  and  that  a  good  salary  would  be 
guaranteed,  and  the  lady  would  be  treated  as  one  of  the 
family.  This  young  lady,  very  accomplished,  applied  for  the 
position.  She  saw  the  doctor  at  his  down-town  office.  He 
told  her  that  he  was  married,  and  he  very  quickly  installed 
this  very  clever  girl — and  she  was  a  lovely  woman — in  this 
position. 

After  a  very  short  time  she  found  that  her  character  was 
compromised.  The  doctor  was  the  author  of  a  certain  bad 
book,  a  book  which  went  far  beyond  the  utmost  limit  of  the 
law,  and  she  was  really  being  used  for  the  circulation  of 
indecent  and  filthy  literature. 


326  ZION'S  HOLY   WAR. 

The  doctor  had  by  this  time  exerted  a  very  considerable 
influence  over  her.  She  was  far  away  from  home,  and  he  had 
taken  her  to  various  entertainments.  She  found  that  she  was 
drifting,  and  struggled  as  best  she  could,  but  one  night  she 
became  insensible  in  a  certain  place  to  which  she  was 
taken. 

She  knew  no  more  until  her  virtue  was  gone,  and  she 
was  his  mistress.  She  soon  found  that  he  had  no  wife, 
and  that  she  had  been  the  fifth  lady  secretary  whom  he  had 
ruined. 

I  confess  to  you  I  felt  very  much,  for  a  moment,  as  if  I 
should  like  to  take  a  revolver  and  go  and  shoot  that  dog.  I  have 
no  desire  to  kill  anybody,  but  when  I  heard  all  that  story,  I  felt 
that  such  a  man  was  worse  than  any  mad  dog  which  a  police- 
man shoots  in  the  streets  of  Chicago. 

I  felt  that  if  there  was  so  great  danger  from  the  bite 
of  a  mad  dog  that  you  had  to  shoot  it,  then  a  dog  like 
that  doctor  was  ten  times  worse:  for  there  was  a  danger 
in  his  continued  existence  far  greater  than  hydrophobia  and 
death. 

His  tongue,  his  culture,  his  wealth,  and  his  vile  book  were 
all  so  many  poisoned  fangs,  which,  when  he  had  coiled  his 
wiles  and  arms  around  his  victims,  were  plunged  into  their  very 
hearts. 

This  is  all  connected  with  the  story  of  Bad  Books. 

Bad  advertisements,  Bad  Books,  bad  doings  of  every  kind 
are  all  mixed  and  muddled,  and  it  is  all  one  deviltry 
together. 

THERE    IS   NO   PLEASURE   IN    DWELLING   ON   THIS. 

It  is  painful;  it  is  disgusting;  it  is  horrible. 

It  is  only  those  who  have  confidence  of  people  who  will  get 
such  letters  as  I  have,  in  strictest  confidence,  asking  me  to  use 
the  facts  and  protect  the  writers. 

I  am  glad  to  tell  you  that  the  lady  in  that  case  was  saved 
in  Central  Zion  Tabernacle.  God  blessed  her,  and  she  went 
back  again  to  the  East.  She  is  now  occupying  a  good  and 
respectable  position.  I  am  thankful  for  that.  (Amen.)  She 
was  baptized  in  this  baptistry  and  was  restored  to  her  friends, 
who  had  great  interest  in  her.  Her  fall  is  not  known  to  those 
amongst  whom  she  now  lives;  but  she  feels,  rightly  or  wrongly, 
that  it  debars  her  forever  from  the  bliss  of  a  pure  marriage,  and 
the  joys  of  virtuous  motherhood.  She  lives  for  God,  and  for 
others;  but  there  is  a  Memory  which  only  God  can  blot  out  of 
her  mind,  and  it  falls  like  a  shadow  over  all  her  life.  May  God 
take  it  all,  and  forever,  away. 

The  press  will  not  help  me  to  warn  young  women  and  young 
men  in  all  parts  of  the  country  against  these  things,  because 


ZION'S  HOLY   WAR.  327 

the   press  is  getting   from  bad  advertisements   nearly  half  a 
million  dollars  every  year  in  this  city. 

GOD   TAKES  FROM  HIS  CHILDREN  THE  APPETITE  FOR  BAD  READING. 

I  ask  the  thousands  of  Zion  present:  When  God  in  His 
infinite  mercy  blessed  you  in  Zion,  did  He  not  take  out  of  you 
all  appetite  for  bad  reading? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — God  has  not  only  taken  out  the  appetite  for 
tobacco  and  for  drink,  but  for  Bad  Books. 

All  those  in  Zion  who  have  Bad  Books  still  in  existence, 
bring  them  to  me,  and  put  them  upon  this  platform  next 
Christmas  morning.  You  who  will,  say  Yes. 

A  very  few  voices — "  Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — There  are  very  few  here  who  have  any  Bad 
Books. 

I  rejoice  in  that. 

Let  me  now  ask  another  question.  When  you  gave  your 
heart  to  God  in  Zion,  did  not  the  Bible  become  the  most  inter- 
esting Book  in  the  world  to  you? 

Voices— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — All  who  can  say  that  truly,  put  up  their  hands. 
(Nearly  all  the  thousands  present  raised  their  hands.) 

That  is  a  wonderful  sight,  and  I  am  so  delighted  with  that. 

I  desire  to  commend  to  you  in  a  few  brief  words  that  best 
of  all  Books.  I  admit  that  it  must  be  read  with  wisdom  and 
understanding.  I  admit,  and  all  must  admit,  that  the  painful 
stories  which  it  contains  are  in  some  cases  very  difficult  read- 
ing. But  those  who  are  pure  in  mind,  and  whom  God  has  for- 
given, will  not  seek  for  these  things.  They  pass  them  over, 
except  to  note  them  as  Divine  Warnings,  and  read  the  beauti- 
ful things  for  Divine  Imitation,  by  the  power  of  the  Holy  Spirit. 

THERE   ARE    MANY   GOOD    BOOKS  J    BUT    THE    BEST   IS   THE    EIBLE. 

I  am  in  my  fifty-third  year,  and  I  have  been  quite  a  reader 
from  my  fourth  year.  For  nearly  fifty  years  I  have  been 
enabled  to  read  the  English  language,  and  I  know  just  a  little! 
about  some  other  books.  I  have  read  quite  extensively. 

There  was  a  time  in  Australia  when  I  had  a  library  of  many 
thousands  of  volumes.  These  I  sold  and  gave  the  proceeds 
to  God's  work.  I  never  knew  the  sacrifice  I  had  made  until 
they  were  gone.  I  oftentimes  have  been  tempted  to  lament 
since  then  that  I  made  the  sacrifice.  However,  I  gave  it  to 
God  and  to  the  work  for  Him  in  which  I  was  engaged.  It 
needed  the  sacrifice  then;  but  it  does  not  need  it  now,  and, 
therefore,  I  shall  hope  one  day  to  have  a  Private  Library  more 
befitting  my  work;  but  above  all  things  a  Library  for  Zion 
College  and  Zion  City  of  all  that  is  best  in  Literature.  May 


328  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

Zion,  under  God,  create  a  Zion  Literature  for  the  Home,  and 
for  Education,  and  for  Business,  as  well  as  for  the  Church. 

Let  me  say  to  you  as  a  reader  and  a  parent,  be  careful.  If 
your  children  are  to  be  well  educated  in  the  languages  they  will 
be  almost  compelled  to  read  heathen  literature.  If  you  know 
that  your  sons  and  daughters  have  tendencies  to  evil  of  this 
kind,  you  ought  to  deny  them  even  the  privilege  of  a  liberal 
education  in  that  direction  rather  than  allow  them  to  have  their 
susceptible  minds  polluted  with  that  literature. 

I  confess  to  you  that  there  were  things  which  I  read  in  the 
Latin  poets,  and  in  the  Greek  dramas,  which  for  a  long  time  it 
was  the  hardest  fight  in  the  world  to  keep  from  coming  into 
one's  mind.  At  last  I  just  gave  up  the  fight.  I  said  to  God, 
"I  cannot  win.  You  will  have  to  undertake  for  me,  and  blot 
out  of  my  memory  those  things  which  it  will  retain."  I  do  not 
praise  God  for  anything  more  earnestly  than  I  do  for  the  fact 
that,  although  I  have  a  splendid  memory  for  minute  details  in 
connection  with  many  good  things,  I  have  completely  forgotten 
those  things  which  I  hated  and  detested. 

It  seems  to  me  as  if  that  department  of  my  memory  had 
entirely  become  a  blank. 

Yet  it  is  very,  very  much  better  not  to  get  these  things  into 
your  mind  than  to  have  the  Devil  fighting  with  you,  reminding 
you  of  them.  Be  careful,  especially,  my  brothers  and  sisters,  in 
the  homes.  Be  careful  as  to  the  books  that  are  in  the  home. 

IN    READING   THE    BIBLE,  READ    MOST    OFTEN     THE     GOSPELS   AND 

ACTS    OF    THE    APOSTLES    AND  THE  REVELATION  OF   JESUS 

CHRIST    IN    THE    LAST    BOOK    OF   THE    BIBLE. 

If  you  read  the  Bible  with  the  dear  children,  read  with  them 
the  Gospels  and  the  Acts  of  the  Apostles  over,  and  over,  and 
over  again.  Let  these  books  be  read  five  times  as  often  as  any 
other  books  in  the  Bible.  Let  the  little  ones  walk  with  Jesus. 
Let  them  go  into  the  lives  of  the  Apostles.  Let  them  become 
so  familiar  with  the  four  Gospels  that  they  will  live  inside  these 
four  walls  of  the  House  Beautiful  with  Jesus,  until  at  last  the 
thoughts  of  Jesus,  the  form  of  Jesus,  the  face  of  Jesus,  the 
works  of  Jesus,  the  words  of  Jesus,  Jesus  in  it  all,  will  occupy 
such  a  place  in  their  memory  that,  while  they  are  at  work, 
they  will  be  thinking  instinctively  of  Jesus,  and  the  Holy  Spirit 
will  bring  to  their  remembrance  the  words  of  warning  and 
direction  and  comfort  which  are  contained  in  the  Word  of  God, 
but  especially  in  the  Gospels. 

The  Revelation  is  not  a  little  difficult;  but  the  Holy  Spirit 
will  enlighten  them  and  you,  and  show  you  Jesus  and  the  Holy 
City,  and  the  Final  Triumph  of  the  Everlasting  Gospel  in  the 
establishment  of  the  Universal  Kingdom  of  God,  and  not  a 
mere  Local  Kingdom  of  Heaven  with  an  everlasting  kingdom 


ZION'S  HOLY  WAR.  329 

of  hell,  forever  guarded  by  angels  of  God,  lest  it  should  break 
out  again.  Sing  with  them  the  Song  in  the  Revelation  which 
"great  voices  in  heaven"  sing: 

The  kingdom  of  the  world 

Is  become  the  Kingdom  of  our  Lord, 

And  of  His  Christ; 

And  He  shall  reign  forever  and  ever. 

Read  all  the  Bible.  Be  familiar  to  a  certain  extent  with  the 
Old  Testament;  but  for  every  time  you  read  the  Old  Testa- 
ment once,  read  the  New  Testament  five  times,  and  study 
it,  and  love  and  incorporate  it  in  your  lives. 

I  thank  you  for  your  great  patience  with  me  in  this.  It  has 
been  a  subject  which  I  just  hated  to  approach. 

How  shall  I  speak  thee,  or  thy  power  address, 
Thou  god  of  our  idolatry,  the  press? 
By  thee  religion,  liberty,  and  laws 
Exert  their  influence,  and  advance  their  cause; 
By  thee  worse  plagues  than  Pharoah's  land  befel, 
Diffused,  make  earth  the  vestibule  of  hell; 
Thou  fountain,  at  which  drink  the  good  and  wise; 
Thou  ever-bubbling  spring  of  endless  lies; 
Like  Eden's  dread  probationary  tree, 
Knowledge  of  good  and  evil  is  from  thee. 

There  are  two  sides  to  this  press.  I  thank  God  that  there 
are  books  which  are  beautiful  books,  lovely  books;  books 
which  are  helpful.  I  pray  God  that  in  the  days  to  come  there 
will  be  multitudes  of  people  in  the  world  who  will  bless  God 
for  the  books  which  will  come  from  Zion  Publishing  House. 

Every  one  now  in  this  meeting  who  desires  to  read  and 
think  in  purity  and  be  good  and  true  to  God,  stand  to  your 
feet,  and  ask  Him  to  bless  you.  (Apparently  all  arose.) 

PRAYER    OF    CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  thee.  Take  me  as  I  am. 
Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me  power  to 
do  right,  no  matter  what  it  costs.  Give  me  power  to  overcome  every  bad 
thought  which  I  have  ever  gotten  from  Bad  Books.  Give  me  power  to 
overcome  evil  in  every  form  that  I  may  do  good;  that  I  may  trust  Jesus, 
the  Lamb  of  God  who  taketh  away  the  sin  of  the  world,  and  be  led  by  the 
Spirit  into  the  way  of  all  truth,  for  Jesus'  sake.  (All  repeat  the  prayer, 
clause  by  clause,  after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

Now  did  you  mean  that? 
Audience— "Yes." 

Dr.  Dowie — May  God  help  you  then  to  live  it. 
After  the  hymn  "Sin  No  More"  had  been  sung,  the  services 
w'ere  closed  with  the  following 

PRAYER   AND    BENEDICTION. 

Father,  when  the  prodigal  returns  and  cries,  "Father,  I  have  sinned 
against  heaven,  and  in  Thy  sight,  and  am  no  more  worthy  to  be  called  Thv 
son,  make  me  one  of  Thy  hired  servants,"  then  Thy  love  strips  from  him  the 
rags  of  self-righteousness  and  guilt;  then  Thy  love  cleanses  him  within  and 


330  ZION'S  HOLY  WAR. 

without,  and  clothes  him  with  all  the  garments  of  righteousness.  Take  the 
prodigal  here  today,  the  sinful  here  today,  who  have  said,  "Father,  I  have 
sinned,"  and  make  them  sin  no  more.  Set  them  free,  and  make  them  know 
that  there  is  for  them  a  feast  of  love,  and  that  Thou  dost  give  them  the 
power  to  overcome  from  this  moment  their  besetting  sins. 

Oh  God,  give  to  this  country  a  clean  press,  in  the  newspapers,  so-called 
religious  and  secular.  Oh  God,  destroy  Bad  Books,  and  give  to  the  people 
good  thoughts,  which  will  make  it  impossible  for  Bad  Books  to  triumph. 
Hear  us,  our  Father,  for  those  whose  minds  are  already  poisoned  by  these 
books  Oh  God,  it  is  only  possible  for  Thee  to  deliver  them  who  are  poi- 
soned in  their  blood,  in  their  very  mind ;  it  is  only  possible  by  Thy  grace. 
Oh  do  Thou  take  that  poison  away.  (Amen.) 

Bless  the  services  in  the  South  Side  Tabernacle  tonight.  May  much 
blessing  be  there,  and  be  with  us  in  what  lies  before  us,  for  Jesus'  sake. 

The  grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  be  with  your  spirits.    Amen. 


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No.   3,  March,          1897— Reply  to  Dr.  Hillis. 

No.   4,  April,  1897 — Reply  to  Ingersoll's  Lecture  on  Truth. 

No.   5,  May,  1897 — Redemption  Draweth  Nigh. 

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ZION  CITY  BANK 

JOHN  ALEX.  DOWIE,  President. 
I3OO    IN/liohiigan    Boulevard. 


TRANSACTS      A  GENERAL    BANKING    BUSINESS. 

RECEIVES  .  .      CHECKING   AND   SAVINGS  ACCOUNTS. 

INTEREST  at  4  per  cent  per  annum  on 

PAYS savings  of  $i  to  $500,  and  on  savings 

over  $500,  3  per  cent. 

MAKES     .  •  •  •      LOANS  on  Improved    Real  Estate  and 

Approved  Collateral. 

ISSUES    .  .  •  •      DRAFTS  payable  at  all  principal  cities 

of  Europe. 

COLLECTS  •  •      ON  all  accessible   points  on  equitable 

terms. 

MANAGES  .  .      ESTATES    AND    COLLECTS    RENTS. 

to 01  TpC  MONEY  ORDERS  available  in  all  parts  of 

100  U  CO     ....  the  United  states. 


Correspondence  or  a  Personal  Interview  with  a 
view  to  Business  Relations  respectfully  invited. 


ADDRESS  ALL  COMMUNICATIONS  TO 


ZION    CITY    BANK, 

I3OO  Michigan  Boulevard,  Chicago,  III. 


CHAS.  J.  BARNARD,  Cashier.  WM.  S.  PECKHAM,  Ass't  Cashier. 


ZION  LAND  AND  INVESTMENT 
ASSOCIATION 

Is  Organized  for  the  Purpose  of  Securing  the  Site 
and  to  Transact  all  Business  in  Connection  wit 
the  Building  up  and  the  Permanent  Establishment  ( 


ZION  CITY 


Under  the  Direct  Supervision  and  Control  of  the 
General  Overseer  of  the  Christian  Catholic  Church  in  Zion 


dedaints,  ,  are  amply  secured  by  aU  of  the  persona,  proper,,  interests  of  Zion  amount- 
„,  huTed  o,  thousands  o,  dollars,  including  the  65oo  acres  o,  iand  contracted  ,  or  a^ng 
the  shore  ofbeautifu,  Lake  Michigan,  upwards  o,  ,coo  acres  of  Which  have  already  been 


An,  further  informal  concerning  this  depart 
ment  of  Zion  will  be  cheerfully  furnished  upon  application. 
Address  your  communications  to 

ZION  LAND  AND  INVESTMENT  ASSOCIATION 

,300  MICHIGAN  BOULEVARD,  CHICAGO 

If.   WORTHINGTON  JVDD, 

Secretary  and  General  Manager 


ZION  COLLEGE 


J300  Michigan  Boulevard,  Chicago 


REV.  JOHN  ALEX.  DOWIE,  President 

REV.  O.  L.  TINDALL,  M.  A.,  Prin.  Min.  Tr.  Dept. 

REV.  W.  F.  MATTHEWS,  M.  A.  Prin.  Prep.  Dept. 


Ministerial  Training  School 

REV.  O.  L.  TINDALL,  M.  A.,  B.  D.,  Principal 

For  the  teaching  of  men  and  women  how  to  pray,  teach 
and  preach  in  the  carrying  of  a  Full  Gospel  to  all 
nations.  Instruction  by  the  President  and  a  corps  of 
able  Lecturers. 


Preparatory  and  Collegiate  Department 

REV.  W.  F.  MATTHEWS,  M.  A.,  Principal 

Regular  Classical  and  Scientific  Courses  are  offered, 
equal  to  those  in  the  best  collegiate  schools.  Also 
courses  in  English  Branches  and  Modern  Languages. 
A  first-class  Commercial  Course  is  also  presented  for 
those  who  wish  to  prepare  especially  for  business  life. 
The  study  of  Shorthand  and  Typewriting  can  be  pur- 
sued. 


lion's  Junior  School,  1243  Michigan  Boulevard 

MRS.  W.  F.  MATHEWS,  Principal 

Receives  pupils  from  the  First  to  the  Fourth  Grades. 
The  next  term  will  begin  Thursday,  September  13,  1900. 
The  school  year  is  divided  into  two  terms,  the  first  term 
extending  to  the  end  of  January,  the  second  to  the  mid- 
dle of  June.  Tuition  is  $15.00  for  each  half-year  term. 


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